To All Candidates With Adsense on Their Websites

Posted on January 7th, 2010. Written by Rico.

Yes, I know you need all the money you can get for the upcoming 2010 elections, and if you place third-party advertisements on your websites, who am I to complain? Just make sure though you exercise some control over the ads that do come out.

Case in point, on the official website of Bro. Eddie C. Villanueva. Things look fine up on top (click to see larger-size versions of the images)…

But get to the bottom and you see an ad for Manny Villar!

Now I know democracy is all about making all options to the electorate clear. But why should a candidate spend their own campaign money to maintaining a website that gives their competitors exposure?

Thanks Mark!

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Rico

Rico Mossesgeld is the founding editor of Technograph. Learn more about him at rico.mossesgeld.com/about.

http://techfilipino.com TechFilipino

Lol, with the amount of budgets that they have they should just make their websites ad-free. What’s $0.05 if the people from their site clicks an ad from their competitor.
http://skiverz.blogspot.com Skiverz

lol.

i think im going for villar coz of this. haha
Zeke

Still hasn’t changed… Clean outside but filthy inside!
Myrtle

I assure you the candidate will not find it at all amusing to have his rival’s ad on his site although he would have made some money from it! Consider the voters who clicked on his rival’s ad, what were they thinking?
http://fitzvillafuerte.com Fitz

I think the site is maintained by a volunteer and he/she hopes to earn a bit of money to possibly pay the domain/hosting expenses.

Anyway, you’re right, nothing wrong with putting ads – but they should learn how to block competitor ads.

In any case, I browsed through the pages of the site and no more Villar ads – I think they already learned. :D
Modern

Ithink this can be succinctly described as “A comedy of Errors”.