An Apology is owed

If you have come by my blog the last few days you may have seen an odd, out of place ad. It used to be my "Social Media Bar" where you could share things to reddit, google+, facebook, and a bunch of other sites well now it was a bunch of Porn ads. Livejasmin, some kind of cute blondes ad, date hot chicks ad or something. Every once in a while in this blogging game the widgets or apps you use either expire, go old, or just get hacked. I had one expire(that was my Shelfari app) and the social media widget up there was either expired or hacked. So what did I do, I just got rid of them it appears that BOTH of those apps have been turned into redirects.

Redirects to where: one seemed to constantly send you to porn. Which I have no problem with porn, but if it is a porn redirect there is probably a virus attached. Again, I have no issue with porn but if you weren't actually searching for porn and got sent there unexpectedly you would be pretty upset right? Yeah me too, and as I try to keep THIS blog PG-13 for somebody to redirect folks to porn apps from here kind of slaps the rules in the face. Plus you are in essence STEALING TRAFFIC. It would be one thing if people clicked on the add to get to the porn, but since it was an automatic redirect that ended up hiding in a widget that I innocently left up because it still appeared to work you weren't giving folks a choice. And no I don't get any credit for those redirects hell they count as bounces IE people leaving my site because they don't like what they see. So if I am looking at the numbers for the night I might think you didn't like my layout, or you weren't interested in the articles this month when really somebody was stealing traffic most likely to get themselves ad money.


Normally I don't really have a problem with what people do to make their dough, we all can't have glamorous jobs. Somebody has to plunge the toilet, cook the fries, mop the floors, run the gas station, and pick the oranges to make our orange juice. It's not all acting, sports, politics, or photography which means if your life is a little gritty so be it, the world requires all types to run. The GRIFTY though, they I have a problem with. Mainly because you are actively trying to steal from people, or mislead people, send people on wild goose chases and POSSIBLY steal their information. Nobody wants their identity stolen, that is a lot of money and pain involved. People always say things are a "victimless crime" until of course you victimize them, then the need EVERYBODY called to help them get redress.

So again, my apologies, two of my widgets bit the dust and I had not removed them fast enough. In case you wonder I often check my blogs to see if everything is running smoothly from my laptop, phone and Samsung tablet and if something looks hinky I try to resolve it as quickly as possible.