We Got Rid of Ads

If you've been a reader for a long enough time, I'm sure you've closed or scrolled past hundreds or thousands of ads on this site. And note that I said you've scrolled past them. You've not clicked on them. I know; I don't either.

As part of the first step in a larger redesign of the site, I am going to do the simple thing first and remove ads from the site.

Ads interrupt your experience on the site. I can't control with that much fidelity what you do or don't see, so it also might be completely experience-ruining to see some ads. Also, Google has started injecting ads that do all sorts of unpleasant things like expanding when you don't expect them to or the classic of making them very hard…