Oh, absolutely not. This is not Facebook. What a horrible idea.

Er, what feature on Facebook is like this?

my entries was centered, now when i set advertisment on the right side my entries are on the left :( can i leave it centered?

Is this available to all country around the world?

...so not renewing my paid account. So not happy with this shit. So glad I never bought a perm account.

What is with Livejournal these days?

Honestly, I miss the old management. I miss livejournal. After 2007... things have really been getting worse around here. Ads in journals, unless you pay money. So, people are leaving. This place used to be packed full of awesome. LJ could still be better than myspace and facebook because of the communities here.

But, why do we have to have adds in our personal online journals? Why can't we customize the way we want to? Why is it all about MONEY?

Major fail.

Not that I'm pissed off about this or really care either way about it, but I'm just curious how economically feasible LJ really thinks this is? I mean...doesn't the majority of Internet users use firefox and adblock? Not to mention all the people who are genuinely pissed about this and most certainly will not be using it because it infringes on their assumption that LJ was being SRS when it promised no ads anywhere ever. Or that it's not likely anyone's personal journal gets enough traffic to accumulate a substantial amount of revenue off of this feature anyway. Unless you've got a lot of creepy stalkers who are interested in your personal journal but are too chicken shit to friend you, and you've left your journal publc - I don't see how this could work for anyone other than google, since everyone views posts from their friends page. I guess I can see WHY people are irritated about this, since it generally just reeks of LJ NEEDS MONEY LIEK NAO, which would understandably be some cause for discomfort considering all of the seemingly desperate attempts at grasping straws lately when it comes to LJ and finance. I mean... Is LJ really doing that poorly financially? I still plan on keeping my paid account and extra userpics for as long as blogging holds my attention, but this all seems a bit contrived and poorly executed. Added with the ad that was rather distastefully incorporated into the LJ banner on plus account holders' homepage, some might assume that LJ is very gradually trying to ease everyone into seeing ads, regardless of account type. I just figure that maybe it should have occurred to someone that this has potential to be a waste of time and that surely there has to be a more successful way of making profit for the site. Like...idk, utilising all those Russian pornbot accounts for advertising. They're not real people anyway, so I doubt they'll care if LJ decides to throw ads on those pages, especially considering how much exposure those accounts get on the aqua page as it is. It could prove to be a highly lucrative endeavour for all parties involved, with minimum piss-offage. not that I can blame you guys; I CAN RECKINIZE, LJ's recently acquired new overlords seem to be having a hard time wrapping their soviet heads around the complex workings of capitalism

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haha reading back over all of that, I'm realising that comment came out way more condescending than I meant for it to be. LOL OH WELLZ. I WAS JUST WONDERIN'.

but you have to admit, all the wank this has inspired is fine entertainment.

Edited at 2009-09-25 09:31 am (UTC)

The spam accounts already all have advertising on them.

If you do customization on your layout in S2, how can you get the ads to show? The FAQ linked above doesn't have any text at all.

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its a nice news

HI,
I have a perm. account. I opted out of this when first offered and still want out.....the problem I'm having is that suddenly I am getting ads even viewing my own journal...annoying pop-up ads that show up ONLY while I am accessing LJ. What's happening????? Is this something I've done (I've not changed my settings at all for at least a year BTW)? Is it adware and if so why did it effect only LJ (did I pick it up from y'all)?

PLEASE respond...this is SOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying. Even if your response is shrugged shoulders of confusion at least I won't feel ignored.

Thanks,
Kathleen

I recently returned to being a Paid member, and then wanted to follow the instructions in this post to join AdSense. Yet when I open my Settings page - whether from the main menu, or by clicking on the "My Ads tab" link above - there is no "My Ads" tab there. "Extensions" is the last tab in the top row. I've scoured the Settings page, the Profile page, the Edit Profile page, etc. for anything involving AdSense or My Ads, and found nothing. Why am I missing this tab, and how can I go about signing up for AdSense for my blog?