Josh Bancroft, Intel geek blogger, over at Tiny Screenfuls says he is really tired of the cowboy boot ads from the advertising affiliate network he belongs to.

They’re just so out of character for this site! I’m not half so irritated by the lost ad revenue (paltry) as I am by the fact that they’re just so alien to this site, and my lifestyle! :-)

I’ve got an open support ticket with Chitika, which shows a status of “on hold” in their ticketing system. I added a note, asking when it would be addressed.

Untill then, I guess I’ll just have to compulsively post about geeky stuff that has nothing to do with you-know-what, to try to chase them away by sheer nerd volume.

I feel the same about the about the “Celebrity Blogging” and “Advertising Revolution” ads that Adsense puts next to my site. I tried excluding the offending ad sites only to find them replaced with even worse ones.

The wish to be able to select ads that really contribute to the content and community of a blog is part of the motivation for sell side advertising.