I came across this site the other day promoting ad-free blogs and websites. The author claims the following:
I am opposed to widespread advertising impacting every aspect of our existence. And I am drawing a line around the space that I deem inappropriate for advertising to inhabit. In this case it is my blog.
As an avid blogger for the past six years I started to receive numerous offers of money from companies to both advertise on my site and also to “mention” products as a form of endorsement in the content of my blog. Knowing this goes on it became necessary to differentiate myself from blogs that contain ads and inform my readers that they can know for sure that my endorsement of anything (whether it’s a product, a book, a piece of art, an idea) comes directly from me and not influenced by any outside source/company/or corporation.
I initially made the logo just for myself. Once I put it up I received many requests from other bloggers asking if they could use it too. Hence this site was created.
I’ve put a badge up on my site, because quite frankly I’ve always felt the same way about the negative impacts of corporate advertisement. The author outlines a lot of these pretty clearly on his site, go over there to read more.
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