{"id":343,"date":"2008-01-01T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/01\/ive-gone-to-ads\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:59:59","slug":"ive-gone-to-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ive-gone-to-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve gone to ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/the-ethics-of-adblocking\/\"><i>The Ethics of Adblocking<\/i><\/a>, I talked about not liking obnoxious ads (Flash and banner ones). When I started getting close to exceeding my bandwidth allocation for the Psychocats web hosting, I started moving the images to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imageshack.us\">ImageShack<\/a>, which worked for a while, but their image hosting can be a bit unreliable. I&#8217;ve considered switching to another web host, one which has a higher default bandwidth allocation, but making the move would be extremely complicated. <\/p>\n<p> So I&#8217;m opting to go with some less obnoxious ads on my site (text-based, unobtrusive). I&#8217;m hoping that will help generate enough revenue that I can actually start hosting images (and larger ones) on my own host and then pay for the bandwidth costs. We&#8217;ll see how it turns out. If it turns out well, I&#8217;ll move all the image hosting back to my own host. If it doesn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll keep it all on ImageShack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Ethics of Adblocking, I talked about not liking obnoxious ads (Flash and banner ones). When I started getting close to exceeding my bandwidth allocation for the Psychocats web hosting, I started moving the images to ImageShack, which worked for a while, but their image hosting can be a bit unreliable. I&#8217;ve considered switching&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ive-gone-to-ads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ve gone to ads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","category-web-browsers","tag-adblocking","tag-ads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}