Comments on: Planet MySQL AdSense Advertisement

By: peter

peter — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:35:23 +0000

Thank you Lenz,

By: Lenz Grimmer

Lenz Grimmer — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:12:32 +0000

FWIW, the Google Ads have now been removed from Planet MySQL. Thanks for the suggestions and feedback!

By: peter

peter — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:51:46 +0000

Brian,

If this is not worth writing why do you get so angry ?
I already mentioned I do not like it but not enough to do something about it.

I simply wrote about it as I read article on the topic and found it applying to this case as well.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:42:54 +0000

It’s just beer money…..

By: Brian Aker

Brian Aker — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:45:24 +0000

Hi!

So this is me, speaking as me… (which is the norm). If you don’t like it, create your own aggregator. They are a dime a dozen.

Why bother though? You make money from people seeing your posts on the site, far more I hope, then whatever MySQL AB ever makes off some ads on the site.

Put in a different light… if this was some individual who had set this up, and had spent their energy/money on it, would you begrudge them the few ad dollars?

I am a little surprised that this bothered you at all, to me it doesn’t seem like it is worth the effort to write about.

Cheers,
-Brian

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:27:09 +0000

Whoops, I didn’t mean my last comment to sound like I can tell them what to do… I just meant “I’m going to say something directly instead of just posting here and hoping they notice.”

If I could tell them what to do… “Fix my favorite bug !”

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:21:49 +0000

I don’t like this either. I’ll say something to the MySQL folks about it. Thanks Peter for pointing this out.

By: Frank Mash

Frank Mash — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:13:48 +0000

I agree with Mike. It does makes MySQL look extremely desperate.

Frank

By: Mike Hillyer

Mike Hillyer — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:22:50 +0000

I think an important question is this: what is the financial state of MySQL AB that they consider it necessary to port adsense on their manual and feed aggregator? Are things so bad that they need that little bit of extra revenue at the expense of the goodwill of their users?

By: peter

peter — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:52:31 +0000

Luis,

I’m far against Advertisements on a web. Our consulting business is at large extent paid by money people earn from web advertisement.

Sure. If Planet MySQL would snippets rather than full posts while keeping advertisements I would have no concern, but it is not how it is done. Furthermore it could be done to only show snippets on web pages with Advertisement and pass full articles when they are exported with RSS.

Also MySQL could require you to allow them to reuse your content and show ADS on it if you’re being aggregated on Planet MySQL.