AdSense and sensibility

Evil: smacks of black and white thinking. Back in the days of George W Bush, that seemed to be fine. But Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto is open to interpretation. Surely having a butcher’s at my email, for example, represents a grey area.

Not that I mind. The Google ad generator (AdSense, apparently) in the side bar of the Gmail interface is generally more interesting than the actual email I’m reading anyhoo.

AdSense works by prying into the content of your emails and tantalising you with gaudy baubles of marketing guff, usually hawking the sort of tat that killed Woolworths. Imagine Derren Brown manning a jumble sale stall. If you really must, read about it here.

On the plus side, I can now pretend that adverts are being beamed into my personal mind from some future dreamt up by Philip K Dick. Like in Minority Report when Tom Cruise gets stalked by Gap (Gap Kids would be more, er, fitting). Only more low rent. And therefore not so threatening, just funny.

A recent double-whammy:

Michelle O's hair in secs
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Cherl Cole Hair Extension
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They’ve got my number. I also got clothes-lined by this heavy-hitting tag-team side-lining the an email:

Birthday Cake
Delicious personalised cheesecakes direct - go on it'll make the day
www.cheesecake.co.uk

10 Skinny Rules
I lost 9 lbs. in 11 days, just by following these 10 simple rules.
FatLoss4Idiots.com

Possibly suggesting that you can have your cake and eat it.