Many of you have e-mailed in and have been wondering why one day you woke up and all your Q-Ads (aka Adgenta) ads were gone from your Wordpress.com blogs.  The simple answer is that the folks at Wordpress.com removed them.  The reason why is also simple, when you start a WP.com blog you agree in the terms of service (TOS) that your blog is to be ad free.  Q-Ads (and other services) are advertising services, therefore go against the TOS.  We had a long grace period (a year, actually) with them, and I thank Matt and Toni for this, but the problem became one of some people abusing the blind eye they were turning and they were fielding a lot of support inquiries about it.

The folks at WP.com didn't really have a choice.  The ads (and Q-Ads aren't not the only ones affected) were going against why they started WP.com and causing them headaches for them.  I contacted Matt and Toni personally about this and they got right back to me and explained their decision and reasoning.  Is the door completely closed?  No.  Here at Qumana we like WP a lot and use it for several other blogs.  We have an open channel and discussion with them about ads on WP.com blogs.

If you have any more questions feel free to contact us.

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