Google Adsense Activated

Haven't seen on of those yet. Bunch of new little ones though. Of Joel fucking Olsteen.
 
I just saw a Joel Olsteen ad. I fucking hate Joel Olsteen. That's a fucking deal breaker man.
Then you must have been visiting something religious lately. I have no control over that. You should see a small X in the corner of any ad. If you click that X it will then show a window where you can click "stop showing this ad" and it will ask why. Then click "I'm not interested" or "It's offensive" and it will be removed from your Google history and you'll not see that ad again.

Um.. upon entering I get a paywall-type, fully grayed out page until I click an "X" in an ad?

Nope.
Opps. OK. Let me see if I can turn that off. There's a half billion settings they've added and in my tests I never saw one of those.

EDIT TO ADD: There is a setting to turn those off. I just did. It may take up to an hour for you to stop seeing them.
 
Haven't seen on of those yet. Bunch of new little ones though. Of Joel fucking Olsteen.
I just found a page where I can block certain categories of adverts from being displayed.

I've disabled the following:
  • References to sex
  • Religion
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Gambling and Betting
If you guys see anything else that you'd rather not have to see, let me know and I'll see if it's part of a given category I can block or I can track down the actual ad and block it specifically.

Since I've been with Adsense with no issues for a two months now they've given me a lot more controls I can use than I had before.
 
I have just been notified by Google that "anchor ads will now be deployed on wider screens".

I'm not sure exactly what they mean by "wider screens" but if any of you have issues with some sort of ad in your face let me know so I can find out how to disable it.