Oh dear lord...

[ffutures]

Livejournal have just added commercially sponsored vgifts and themes, eg. adverts. Needless to say paid and permanent account holders will be able to see them.

Words fail me.

Comments

[fluffcthulhu.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, they have given My minions the opportunity to purchase brains in jars for Me.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I shall use use Adblock to filter them out. But I'm unimpressed.

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

Given that anyone we know is unlikely to want to send them, I don't think it's such a terrible problem. And anyone who sends an advertising "v-gift" to me can kiss goodbye to my being willing to acknowledge their existence - same as commercial viral email.

It's not the end of the world.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Is there an easy way to do that - presumably some tweaking of the Hosts file will do it too, but I don't really want to do it every time they create a new one.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but I think it's VERY stupid.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Want one?

On the other hand(s)

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

It means LJ will have another pressure group hounding them, apart from the Moral Majority, kill-the-HP-teen-porn, brigade.

And advertisers are only going to advertise if they think it's getting them business. If enough people were to hint to these advertisers that, actually, advertising on LJ is advertising to two groups -- those who'd rather die than buy something being pushed at them, and those who are addicted to meaningless mouthings-off at one another and self-gratification by WWW-display -- who aren't the customers they would want, even if they could get them to, respectively, swallow their self-esteem, and look at anything that didn't glorify themselves.

[end rant]

[fluffcthulhu.livejournal.com]

*looks innocent* *whistles nonchalantly*

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing is so annoying, the only thing I can do is just shrug and pop open a cool, frosty Coke (tm). Yes, the great taste of Coke (tm) makes any day better -- and it gives me the energy I need to face the day! So when you're bothered by intrusive commercial endorsements in your LiveJournal, just do what I do, and reach for a Coke (tm).