{"id":153,"date":"2009-04-30T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-04-30T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T02:21:15","slug":"self-blocking-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/self-blocking-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"self-blocking ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know many people use Ad-block or some variant, but at work I feel that I should not be doing anything that blocks HTML content.<\/p>\n

But lately I’ve noticed that there are blocks for ads on sites like OkCupid<\/a>. Where the “ad” is:<\/p>\n

User-agent: *
\nDisallow:<\/code><\/p>\n

I wasn’t aware that robots.txt<\/a> files were very good advertising tools. :-p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know many people use Ad-block or some variant, but at work I feel that I should not be doing anything that blocks HTML content. But lately I’ve noticed that there are blocks for ads on sites like OkCupid. Where the “ad” is: User-agent: * Disallow: I wasn’t aware that robots.txt files were very good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-web-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powrsurg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}