{"id":4032,"date":"2010-11-09T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T18:54:16","slug":"mea-culpa-or-constant-vigilance-mr-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mea-culpa-or-constant-vigilance-mr-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea Culpa or Constant Vigilance, Mr. Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"vvqbox vvqflv\" style=\"width:400px;height:300px;\"><span id=\"vvq-4032-flv-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/jw-flv-player\/player.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rocktownhall.com%2Fblogs%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F11%2FMEA_CULPA400.flv\">http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MEA_CULPA400.flv<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Quick note, apology and request from us here in <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Back Office<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0As you all probably know RTH has an ad block in the upper right sidebar.\u00a0We are, somewhat, proud members of the MOG ad network, but trust us when we say, no one is getting rich from these ads.\u00a0However, they do help offset some of the cost of this labor of love.\u00a0Within the last 6 months we have noticed two disturbing trends: 1.\u00a0Ads that play &#8220;forced audio&#8221; that is audio automatically plays without user request and 2.\u00a0Middle screen &#8220;survey&#8221; ads that lay over our content.\u00a0When we first discovered these back then we ripped MOG a new-one in a vitriolic email.\u00a0We stated our position firmly &#8220;These ads are not OK.&#8221;\u00a0 (I know, <em><strong>brutal<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;right?)\u00a0They apologized and said that we would be eliminated from any ads of this sort.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All was good until last week or so, when they started appearing again.\u00a0We don&#8217;t make enough money from these guys to put up with this.\u00a0Seriously.\u00a0Our official position is,\u00a0<em>If we have to include these ads then we&#8217;re out of your program<\/em>.\u00a0 Not like we have any leverage with them but apparently we aren&#8217;t the only ones to be pissed off.\u00a0From now on when we are alerted of new buys via email we will be able to log-in and see (for the first time) if any ads contain forced-audio and\/or surveys and will have the option of blocking them.<\/p>\n<p>So the first part of this diatribe (these are words with a &#8220;d&#8221; this time&#8230;) is &#8220;Sorry&#8221; and &#8220;this is not OK with us&#8221; and &#8220;we have taken steps to stop it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second part is a request.\u00a0Just as these things started to appear after being promised to disappear we ask your patience and more importantly <em>vigilance<\/em>.\u00a0If you encounter one of these during your routine stroll through the hallowed halls, please alert us here in <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Back Office<\/span><\/strong> (<a href=\"mailto:thebackoffice@rocktownhall.com\">thebackoffice[at]rocktownhall.com<\/a>) ASAP and we&#8217;ll send the alert out to the <em><strong>Justice League<\/strong><\/em> for immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your attention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4047\" title=\"backoffice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/backoffice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick note, apology and request from us here in The Back Office.\u00a0As you all probably know RTH has an ad block in the upper right sidebar.\u00a0We are, somewhat, proud members of the MOG ad network, but trust us when we say, no one is getting rich from these ads.\u00a0However, they do help offset some of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mea-culpa-or-constant-vigilance-mr-potter\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}