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Ads on the blog but you’re too cheap to move to your own TLD. I don’t know why I find great humor in this, but the advertisement “Casinos hate this site...” made me laugh (and hate your site -> and swipe back to HN).

Sorry, I’m away from my house and so there’s no pi-hole enabled.

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I'm pretty sure the ads are not put up by the author by WordPress.com. According to their pricing page[1], they "sometimes" display ads on blogs to cover costs.

https://wordpress.com/pricing/

As a follow-up, I think the humor is that I imagine this blog might have valuable information, but you’re turning off your target audience with low-brow ads.

For the record, the ads are all Wordpress's doing, not mine. I have no control over them, and derive no benefit from them (on the contrary, they put me off too!).

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