Labour has colonised cyberspace with a huge online advertising budget
You can’t browse a single non-Maltese site at the moment without being besieged by adverts for Joseph Muscat, Malta Taghna Lkoll and Labour’s crappy policies.
They’re coming at us out of everywhere. The other day I looked at a parrots website (don’t ask) and there was Joseph’s face, staring out at me.
He’s on Italian football sites, hobby sites, chat sites, the works. This doesn’t mean that Labour are advertising on those sites specifically (a hundred people have asked me about this already), as they would when they book specific advertising on say, timesofmalta.com.
The adverts are placed with systems like Google Ads. When the system recognises your IP as being Malta-based, as you browse a site, it ‘feeds’ you the Malta Labour Party ad.
Now there is no getting away from them.
THEY ARE EVERYWHERE.
One of my readers said that we will soon be finding little plastic Joseph and Michelle figures in our cornflakes packets. Or in our Easter eggs.
He’s right. This is all so very Kim Il Sung.
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I remember in the seventies seeing North Koreans walking round in Malta wearing Kim Il Sung’s badges. That’s what will happen soon in Malta, this time it will Joseph Muscat’s badges instead.
Walking around? They didn’t have that kind of freedom. They used to be driven around in large vans or buses, and the sight of them – emotionless faces, denim-blue uniforms – driven through my childhood town is one of my few memories of the time.
Gonzi qeridna wkoll … imma flus għal riklamar żejjed (bl-Ingliż ‘overkill’) dejjem hemm donnu.
He’s even appearing in gmail now. He’s like an apparition.
I threw him out of my gmail, and really felt good.
Are we going to see him on milk cartons next week?
Don’t give Labour ideas. With seemingly unlimited funds, they’d probably give it a shot too.
Do they really believe that these irritatingly nagging ads are going to make undecided people vote for them?
No, but they will make people like myself vote Nationalist all the more wholeheartedly.
An idea to fellow readers..
Click on each one of them, eat a tiny sliver of their budget, and worse, skew their analytics.
Good idea, if it helps to empty Joseph’s pockets.
You can block all that and more with Ghostery.
http://www.ghostery.com/
It’s free.
I guess Labour have never heard of overkill.
And you can easily block IP based ads, but don’t you get a warm feeling when you know that you are burning Joseph’s money?
Speaking of which, a friend is having great fun with a couple of PCs running a script opening a carousel of pages.
Overkill is a typical Maltese trait. We have no sense of proportion and understatement is unheard of.
Brilliant!
Actually scratch that, since the Joseph Muscat/Malta taghhom lkoll logo is everywhere, a prize should go to a screenshot of the most inappropriate site showing his face: eg. http://www.dwarfrabbitsprobed-xxx.com
Reminds me of the Mintoff days, where you would find photos of him and his ugly Agatha all over Malta.
Agatha even found her way onto the Maltese lira notes, and into our wallets.
Up to that point, I used to carry my wallet in my trouser pockets, but then started to carry it in the inner pocket of my jacket because I did not trust her.
Does anyone remember how the Maltese lira note with Agatha’s face on could be folded in a certain way to make her look like a bare bottom?
Lira as in the currency, not the Lm 1 denomination I hope. Agatha graced the Lm 2 note.
You didn’t need to fold the note.
I can’t even go into my favourite football team’s website, because believe it or not I get the ‘vote labour’ emblem there too.
Google ‘adblocker’ and install it.
They’re using Google pay by click. If you wanna waste their funds just click on their ads a million times.
Yes, but make sure you clear your cookies each time or else it won’t count.
Are you sure they are using the ‘Pay by click’ system?
Thank God I don’t have a Maltese IP at the moment. No wonder I wasn’t seeing these emejzink edverts
I don’t get many PL ads. Should I be worried?
Early this morning I looked for news on an Italian website about a train accident near Sondrio (northern italy), which killed a truck driver and a passer-by. On the same page I found two ugly pictures; one of a truck crushed by a train and another of Joseph Muscat.
A simple way of getting rid of them is either masking your IP address through a VPN service (which you should do anyway) or install the Ad-Block Plus plugin to your favourite browser
If he wants to be in every household, he should advertise on toilet paper.
L-internet taghna lkoll.
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He’s even on the Daily Mail online. Looks good though next to the Kardashians.
Apparently if you click on these adverts Labour have to pay $1 for every click. So I will happily click all day long.
My early morning poetry reading was ruined today.
On poemhunter ‘Ode to Clothes’.
With Maltataghnalkoll flashing on the screen I gave up .
I took refuge in a book.
Ciaran Carson took Neruda’s place.
Equally superb and PL-free.
This happns as well on the Sudoku online web site. If you scroll down to the ads, josephmuscat.com jumps out at you.
I click on them every time I see them, hoping they have to pay per click.
I’ve found a way: if using Chrome you can disable them from the extensions settings.
Click on those adverts! The more you click the more they pay.
Misshom m’ghandhomx flus ghall-kampanja rikka bhal din. Iriduh b’sahha l-poter. U wara?
You can easily block the ads on Google. I did, but clicking on them to spend PL’s money sounds like a good idea.
Yes, I’m quite fed up of seeing Joseph’s face popping up everywhere.
Download adblock if you’re using Chrome. My internet is Labour free.
Having said that, I think Labour are acting like their nouveau riche voters (who got rich under PN governments), spending their newly acquired wealth left, right and centre. Jaqq.
There’s an opt-out on Google ad preferences that will block the tracking cookie and your demographic info. Here’s hoping it does the trick.
I thought I was his face appear on my loaf of bread.
Reminds me of the old days of Korean communist inspired propaganda when every news item had to start with ‘Il-Prim Ministru….” ad nauseam.
Seems to me that old habits die hard, hence I will not repeat the same mistake twice.