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Kill Gmail Ads With a Few Choice Words

by Terrence O'Brien on August 7, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Kill Gmail Ads With a Few Choice Words
There are people who will go through a lot to avoid having to look at advertisements online. There are add-ons for all of the major Web browsers completely dedicated to stripping pages of their revenue-generating ads. Somehow, though, the sponsored ads that show up next to messages in Gmail manage to escape any and all blocking efforts. Until now, that is.

Lifehacker has discovered a trick that will banish the keyword ads from your e-mails forever. The advertisements are generated by looking for certain keywords in a message, but there are certain phrases that Google doesn't allow. Obscenities and violent words, if used in a certain ratio, will stop paid content from showing up in Gmail.

The trick is to come up with an inoffensive sentence that will effectively block the sponsored links. Lifehacker came up with the idea of using the following phrase as a signature:
"I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath."
Apparently, advertisers don't want to be associated with "slaughter," "massacres," and "bloodbaths." Best of all, it's safe for work, if a little goofy. [From: Lifehacker]

Tags: ads, advertisement, advertising, gmail, google, hack, news, top

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