Why I Turned Off Google AdSense

In 2006, inspired by the recent movie and the launch of the JavaScript Google Maps API , I started working on a project to map the events of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels . At the time I thought using Google AdSense which had launched a few years earlier would help support the running costs of the site. Over the years, as those fairly innocuous text ads evolved into image display ads…