KELO-TV runs a story about the accidental shooting death of a three-year-old boy in Witten and his grieving parents’ call for gun safety.
Right next to the online story, up pops an ad from Dakota Silencer:
Grieve for a dead child, but keep buying more toys for your guns!
Cory, has to do with cookies. Like my google ads, KELO probably doesn’t have control of it. Lately TenHaken ads have been running on my site, I can’t do anything to prevent it.
I hate to judge, but……when is the good guy ever going to save the day? Leaving a boyfriend home with small children, and one of them a 10 year old daughter? To all single moms, bringing a man into the house raises the chances of your kids being molested many many times over.
(See pubs? Liberals like me can have moral standards. I am a divorced parent with a preteen daughter and wouldn’t dream of bringing a man/fling/boyfriend into the house.)
I feel very bad for this mom, but she and her boyfriends are totally to blame for this horrific act. Then the children there to witness it will undoubtedly suffer from PTSD. This isn’t JUST an accident, a toddler doesn’t just happen to come upon a gun laying around. They make all gun owners look incredibly stupid.
The owner of the gun should be charged with a felony or at the least a gross misdemeanor (MN law). This is drunk driving with someone killed.
I will defer to Jim Wright on the subject of this “accident.” http://www.stonekettle.com/2018/03/bang-bang-crazy-part-12-excuses-excuses.html
And I’m getting ads on my sidebars for Far Christian Right organizations. And no way to hide them or close them except by opening them first.
Sheesh.
I teach Hunt Safe. We emphasize locking up guns and ammunition separately. Guns should not be displayed on walls, kept under the bed or in a closet. If there are children don’t allow them in the room where the guns are kept. Lock the door.. Pretty much believe there is no such thing as an “accident”. Almost always boils down to someone doing something stupid or illegal.
You can do what I did, which is not run Google Ads.
Aren’t there also settings one can place on Google Ads to filter some ad content?
Robin, if you’re getting those objectionable ads from Google, check for a little blue X toward the top; it may allow you to open some settings separate from the ad and exclude that content.
Just as there’s no good reason for a silencer ad to appear on a story about a child dying by gunshot, there’s no excuse for that accident happening in the first place. No matter who is in the house, there’s no reason for a three-year-old to be able to access a loaded gun. As Buck’s source says, “There are no accidents with guns.”
Jennt, at peril of making too light of your statement, I agree. Women exist to ensure offspring survive. Leave men in charge, and the world will depopulate.
I didn’t see this unfortunate ad placement myself…. because I use an ad blocker in my web browsers. May as well rant a bit about online advertising.
The main reasons I use an ad blocker are to prevent distractions while reading an article, and to avoid drive-by malware attacks or unwanted cryptocurrency miners. You’ll find that without an ad blocker, KELO-Land’s website will tend to stick a small auto-playing video ad next to the article you want to read. It’s sound is muted, but the moving video creates an almost unavoidable distraction as you attempt to read an article. KELO-Land used to have “Roll over to play” video ads, but looks like those are long gone. I will say that KELO’s ads are nowhere near as bad as those on That Sioux Falls Paper’s website, even going the extra mile by detecting your ad blocker and preventing you from reading articles there until you whitelist them.
Malware can get into third-party ad networks, leading you to fake Flash Player updates or running a browser based crypto currency miner in the background.
Of course, I always whitelist Dakota Free Press in my ad blocker, and do the same for sites that have ads that aren’t annoying or invasive.
I probably could put up some filters but I wouldn’t have many ads running than.
That’s a choice each blogger makes. I used to run the Google Ads, but I dropped them for just this reason. I didn’t like the content Google juxtaposed with mine. Full control over what appears in my ad space is more important to me than certain revenue opportunities. My choice is descriptive, not normative.