R.A.G.E. Media

Many of us who run Catholic websites and blogs rely on Google Adsense to generate some income to continue our work.

Unlike other websites, though, we have to be careful about what shows up on our sites. And as careful as we can be, there is always the chance that someone’s heretical or outright anti-Catholic or pro-abortion ads will show up on our sites.

Brian McDaniel ran into an issue where an organization promoting women priests was advertising through his adsense links, for instance.

So here’s my idea: let’s put together a blacklist for Google Adsense that we can all pool our bad urls to minimize the effectiveness of these ads.

To add sites to your blacklist:
1)Log into Google Adsense
2)Click the “Adsense Setup” tab
3) Under that tab in the navigation bar there will be a link to the “competitive ad filter”
4) Add the urls of the ads you don’t want to see.

Here is my blacklist so far - please post any other urls you see on Catholic sites (such as PickAFig) here and together we can blackball heretical advertisers targeting Catholics.

The BlackList

americanprogress.org
dontblamemeivoted4kerry.com
earlyprivate.com
workingassetswireless.com
www.cafepress.com
www.choiceisgoodtshirts.com
www.diabetes.org
www.directrelief.org
www.illinoisabortion.com
www.ldsplanet.com
www.msaa.com
www.sspxsingles.com
unicefusa.org
unitedway.org
nbc.edu
scientology.org
mostholyfamilymonastery.com
howmuchtime.org/
lifechurch.tv
cacradicalgrace.org
romancatholicwomenpriests.org
ivoted4obamatee.com
KnightsforObama.org

(cafePress is on there since some anti-catholic and pro-abortion ads from cafepress stores were showing up. A few rotten apples in this case spoiled the whole barrel.)

Please post other urls in the comments section of this post.

Updated 8/9/08. Shockingly, I even found a protestant church targeting colelge students by offering “Mass online!”