Eagle-eyed readers — at least those who don’t use adblock — may notice something a little different about We Hunted the Mammoth today. Those giant banner ads that used to sit atop the page are gone! As are the ones following the posts. Indeed, all the Taboola ads are gone from the site.
Nope, I didn’t get kicked off of the ad network. They’re gone for a very happy reason: A very generous fan of the site — who is not a fan of the advertising on the site — has donated enough money for me to be able to get rid of the most obtrusive ads, those from Taboola, for the rest of this year and next. Enjoy!
The Google AdSense ads will remain, at least for now, but if enough of you can dig deeply in your pockets during the next fund drive, which I’ll be launching shortly, I may be able to make them go away as well. That will clear away even more of the annoying clutter and free up space in the sidebar to promote stuff that’s more in line with the values of the site, for free.
I cannot thank enough the very generous anonymous donor who made this possible! But I will try to make a start with this animated gif I just made on Blingee.
Thank you to that donor! Taboola ads are always shady af.
I guess I’ll have to sperm jack a bunch of men so I can get rich off child support and be able to donate the sum required to get rid of those other ads!
Are they the same adds that say, “you won’t believe what blah blah celebrity looks like now?”
@WWTH
HOW TO GET THE MOST PERFECT TEETH EVER
That one bothers me the most because I already have anxiety about my teeth. There are a few others that bothered me.
The “GIRLS X BATTLE” game one made me chuckle because it’s so ridiculously out of place on this blog. This blog is about serious things, not videogames.
I have adblock on my PC, but not on my tablet or phone so it was always jarring and weird when I noticed the ads.
Thank you so much, anonymous donor. I was so tired of seeing ads which told me how to fill up empty cabins on cruises, self-diagnose cancer based on the look of my toes and (this is a UK-specific issue) claim back PPI.
And thank you, David, for continuing to plough through filth on our behalf.
ETA – (And I really, really will go to bed now.)
(And are you sure it’s not George Soros? Maybe we’re all George Soros.
I don’t THINK I’m George Soros, but what if I’ve undergone Manchurian Candidate style brainwashing?
Maybe, a la Spartacus, we SHOULD all be George Soros – I definitely paid my own train fare to the Women’s March, so there’s that.
Go to bed now, Weatherwax!)
@Weatherwax
That’s Miss George Soros to you, m’goodlady.
And now I am off to plot Interracial White Woman Sex Genocide. Just gonna, uh, just gonna fire up all those porn studies I fund with my Jewshekelgolds.
Anon, U R the BEST!
Thx!
Thank you Anonymous Internet Person!
Woo hoo for the generous anonymouse!
OMG, I don’t know who you are, but thank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!
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@Donor
Thank you ever so much.
@Gerfachi Chewbaba
Among other obnoxious garbage, yes.
@Fran
Same here
I would like to audition for the part of White Woman.
In the midst of all the horror in the news, this is a happy day for all… Mammothteers? Is that what we’re called?
Whoa! Had enough news yet for today?
Republican candidate ‘body-slams’ Guardian reporter in Montana
Audio obtained of Greg Gianforte attacking a reporter on eve of a special election to fill a congressional seat vacated by a member of the Trump administration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/greg-gianforte-bodyslams-reporter-ben-jacobs-montana
OH LORD, anybody who saves us from those virus-riddled farts of distilled misogyny is a fucking hero in my book.
@Kat
I saw that break on All in. Chris Hayes’s face when he heard the audio was pure shock – as if he was thinking ‘How could this happen in America?’. The poor reporter who was assaulted (from the Guardian) went to hospital to have his arm X-ray’d – he’d landed on his elbow and felt pain.
I hope the reporter is alright. And I hope that asshole of a candidate loses. We don’t need even more thugs in politics
@Sniper Kitty
Gianforte couldn’t keep his temper in check for one more day.
OHMYFOGFANGASMNEXT
Castlevania, anime. That is a thing of beauty.
That’s marvelous. Many thanks, whoever you are!
Kat, I just heard it, and I cannot tell you how shocked I was…
I hope he gets his ass handed to him tomorrow. This kind of bullshit cannot be tolerated.
Montana, step up to the plate and send a very clear message.
@PeeVee
My boyfriend joked that Montanans probably hate weakling liberals who can’t take a punch in the jaw.
I had to laugh.
thank you, anonymous donor.
Many, many thanks anonymous donor. Now, maybe the ads will not lock my browser up on my iPad.
Kat:
Oro y Plata (to wire your liberal jaw shut with after our candidate punches you)
YAY!!! Thank you to whoever that was!