MomPost?
DISCLAIMER: Be careful. If you have sensitive eyes, you may not want to read this post. I drop some F bombs in here. But seriously, it’s warranted.
Basically, I don’t think I can read MinnPost any more.
You see, last weekend I was doing some late-night reading about the election on MinnPost, and the side-bar banner ad caught my eye. “Gee, the woman in this ad vaguely resembles my mother.”
Do you know why?
Because it WAS my mother.
It was really weird. I had known she was featured in print ads for the U’s Management of Technology program years ago, thought it was pretty neat, and moved on. Then I saw this ad on Saturday and it freaked me the fuck out.
But that’s not all. I read MinnPost (as well as many other news sources) for my jerb every day, and three times this week I’ve seen her there, staring back at me, telling me to clean my room from the fucking internet.
So, I’m sorry MinnPost. Your intrepid, exciting format of grassroots, community-based professional freelance journalism was genius (and a sustainable nonprofit business model!). But it has all been undone by putting my mom’s face all over your articles.
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Heh!
that’s too funny.
I feel you pain. In that spirit, I’d like to suggest that you use either the firefox browser or the opera browser. You’re probably already using firefox anyway, but both have a way to block any unwanted images. In firefox you have to install adblock plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Once its working all you need to do is right click on the image (or flash video, or ad, etc) that you want to block and choose (if an image) AdBlock Image and it will remove it from the page every time it might load. Voila, no more mom telling you to clean your room!
If you choose opera, this feature is already included.
You obviously never had your mom for a teacher!