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Imagine our surprise today when, while checking out Slashdot’s RSS feeds (or, as those in the biz like to call it, /. ) we noted a full-colour advertisement exhorting us to check our credit score, and another for Tek Systems. In fact, there is now an advertisement along with every story summary in the Slashdot RSS feed - ads for penny stocks, even ads for Google Chrome.

Now, of course, these are Google Adsense ads, and so Slashdot has no more control over what ads are displayed in their RSS feed than do we on this site (which also uses Google Adsense). So, we are not saying that it’s necessarily bad (or good - we make no value judgememt).

Just that it’s interesting - and unexpected.

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Previous Article « At Last the Burning Question Answered: What Was Blake Robbins’ “Improper Behavior in His Home” that the School Spied on His Webcam? WebCamGate Hint: Mike and Ike Know
Read Next Article » 3 Google Execs Convicted and Sentenced to 6 Months Jail Over Video Privacy Issues

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