Unscrupulous Advertising on Web Logs

I have a webpage that is devoted to 'Harvest Moon', an incredible series of games created by a Japanese company named Marvelous Interactive and produced in English by Natsume. These games are suitable for ALL ages, from young children to the eldest elders. It therefore infuriated me to find a comment there, with respect to my most recent post, that amounted to no more than shameless, unethical advertising... but advertising that would frighten some readers and perhaps even discourage them from visiting the site again.

The comment was from some one who was marketing 'anti-spyware'. Purporting to have 'discovered an unknown virus' on my site, the individual then gave a link to his/her site where one could purchase the 'anti-spyware' software! First of all, I am deeply opposed to the recent proliferation of advertising on internet sites. Even Google encourages web logs to use advertising as a means of gaining income from weblogs although, to Google's credit, it does not FORCE one to include such advertising the way AOL does now! I will not join the ranks of people who think that making a penny or two from the viewing of their webpages is worth the intrusion of marketing devices on their sites.

This 'comment', however, was more insidious and wicked than those that simply advertise 'tanning beds' or other nonsense. It actually could frighten children and/or their parents, if they were not computer-savvy into thinking that access to my site would endanger the health of their computers! I doubt the person who posted the advert really thought about the implications OR CARED. It is a great pity, however, because my game guides involve months of work but I offer them free to every one...

That is how deep my opposition to exploitation runs...