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Advertising Hits Arizona County Government Website

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the citizens-for-sale dept.

Combuchan writes "Just when you thought that pages on your local government's website were the last bastion of the advertisement-free WWW, that may soon change. Maricopa County (seen on slashdot before), home to 3.4 million people in the Phoenix metropolitan area, has seen their GIS website "become an every day tool for realtors, developers, mortgage and title companies, appraisers, inspectors, attorneys and many other professionals associated with the real estate industry." As a result, they are now accepting bids for Web advertisements. As the county is one of the best-run in the nation, this could set quite the precedent."

2 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. Thank God for Adblock by Edgebound · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as my Adblock still works they can advertise all they want.

  2. Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is a country by the corporations, for the corporations, and now paid for by the corporations! What a great country we live in.

    I'd much rather keep my money for myself to spend on the products the corporations make than contributing to the country I live in. What a horrible concept!

    Unfortunately, now I won't have anyone to complain to when things start going wrong, because I'm not paying them.