Google Adsense is crazy and prudish

Today I was startled to see that Google Adsense was running charity ads on this blog again. Bloggers don't get paid anything when readers click on the charity ads, and Adsense only runs them if you've posted "objectionable" content. In the past they flagged me for the post about animated f*tish *rotica for the deaf, which I found rather extreme. But this time I couldn't think of what the heck Adsense had tagged as p*rn. I hadn't written anything even slightly naughty lately!

Finally I figured it out. I removed the words cr*ss-dr*ssing and *ss from that last Kids in the Hall story, and that did the trick, the charity ads were quickly replaced with ads for commercial products. How pathetic is that? The cr*ss-dr*ssing reference was a direct quote from an article in Toronto's Globe and Mail (not exactly Penthouse or anything) and *ss was used in the context of "this will get your *ss fired." There was absolutely nothing *bscene in that story!

I find censoring *ss to be really silly, but I tend to doubt that was really the offending word. I suspect Google Adsense flags the phrase cr*ss-dr*ssing as p*rn, which is actually kind of creepy. Why is all cr*ss-dr*ssing automatically flagged as p*rn by Google Adsense? Was Some Like It Hot a p*rn movie? I'm sure there are many cr*ss-dr*ssers out there who would object to their harmless little hobby being added to George Carlin's list of the seven words you can't say on television.

Anyway, now we've got our real ads back, and you can resume clicking on them and making me a few nickles per day. G*d d*mn, I gotta find something better than Adsense. Between the censorship and the paltry revenue, Adsense kinda s*cks *ss.