I’m doing a blind review of an academic article, and it’s very good. But the author accuses me of being “heavily influenced by Judith Butler”. I find that very hurtful. He also calls me a “classical Marxist.”
I’m either a Trumpist TERF, as some reviewers have suggested, or a Butlerian Marxist. Take your pick, people, and stick with it!
This is very off topic but does anybody else get very unpleasant medical ads on this blog? I see cures for and images of diseased toes, ear wax, snotty noses….just very stomach churning and unpleasant things. And it’s not my search history because I am in incognito mode. Besides, I would never look at ear, nose, and foot diseases anyway: I have a weak stomach for anything medical so I don’t look things like that up.
I don’t mind ads and am happy that Clarissa can make a bit of money off her work. But the images are so gross that it makes me avoid the blog. Has anyone else experienced these horrible medical ads?
God, that sounds horrid. I had no idea.
I have turned it off in the settings. Please let me know if the horrible ads disappeared.
I don’t see these things because I only access from the app, so I don’t know how the front end looks.
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I see those too, as my adblocker has been glitchy lately. But it’s better than the sex-toy ads that used to get through.
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> “But the images are so gross that it makes me avoid the blog.”
You should be able to permanently block all ads on Clarissa’s website by using a free third-party “ad-blocker” mini-app. Several of these apps are available on the Internet and can be located with a little effort put into a Google search.
I did this when I first came to Clarissa’s website years ago, and haven’t seen ANY ads here since then.
Dreidel
I’ve just turned them off. People should have mentioned this sooner.
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>”I’ve just turned them off. People should have mentioned this sooner.”
Clarissa, I don’t think you can turn off the ads that appear on your READERS’ computers when they open your website. The ads that you readers get AREN’T the same ones that you see — they’re specialized ads that some third-party spy app has determined appeal to your individual readers’ viewing habits.
That’s why the “Anonymous” reader at the very top of this comments page has been getting “medical ads,” while the ads that I saw on your webpage before I figured out how to banish them were of a totally different nature.
Dreidel
I pressed the button for removing the ads on my end, so I wonder if that made a difference at all.
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Well it fixed the problem for me! No more diseased toes! (I am the one that left the original comment).
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I’m so glad! Thank you for telling me that this was happening.
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Ah, the maître de camp says there’s still a place left for you in the Oswald Mosley wing …
You can check in politically any time you like, but you can never leave!
[cue obligatory “Hotel California” riffs]
“… no more diseased toes!”
A six week course of Lamisil OTC topical cream should patch that right up! :-)
No adverts here though, but what’s in place for filtering works even better for browser fungus.
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