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AdSense in newsfeeds

Comments[1] by Dave in Blogging
Adrian Sutton: Issues With Ads In RSS: "So now there’s adsense for RSS feeds (or at least an early beta of such). It raises some interesting issues. I hate ads so I’ll quite happily unsubscribe from any feed that has ads in it, but what about the various planets that I subscribe to? What if one person who’s syndicated through those planets adds advertising to their RSS feeds, would I unsubscribe from the whole planet? Possibly. What if a few people did? Probably.

What is a fair policy for planet administrators to take on this? Is it okay for them to remove the ads from the feeds so as not to annoy their readers? Should they drop feeds that contain ads? Should they offer two feeds, one that includes the people with ads and one that doesn’t?"

That's a good point. What is a planet adminstrator to do when the blogs he aggregates start including advertisements in the body of their feeds? The PlanetRoller sites I've set up show only short excerpts of each blog entry and HTML is stripped, so this should not be a problem. When the ads start showing up as separate entries, then I'll be looking for ways to filter them out.


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Comments:

Thats scary, whats the difference between an in-situ advert and unsolicated email (spam) in that kind of senario. -Richard

Posted by Richard Osbaldeston on April 28, 2005 at 10:29 AM EDT #

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