reader tip on gmail ads

This is funny, though I won’t follow the tip myself (the gmail ads have often been very useful for me, and they are pretty unintrusive as ads go).

“Since gmail uses the content of your e-mails to automatically generate ads you can add content that disables it. Someone figured out that if you use George Carlin’s 7 dirty words Google won’t give you ads because they would all be dirty ads. With a few more experiments they found that if you were sending an e-mail about particularly gruesome content like a massacre or a crime Google won’t give you adds.

So in white text beneath my signature I’ve added this line of text (If you highlight my whole signature and the white space beneath it you can see it):

‘I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.’

Ever since doing that I haven’t gotten the ads in the sidebar. I’m sure this fix is only temporary, Google will find a workaround soon enough.”