[South40]

You're helping Google when you visit their site raising the number of hits which translates into revenue from their advertisers.

Count me out.

[StarCMC]

As you wish.

[netmilsmom]

I go to YouTube all the time. Got to get my dose of James Marsden. I’m sure you understand.

And I use Google.

So do the terrorists. I’ll get into the trenches for you, okay?

[NewLand]

You're helping Google when you visit their site raising the number of hits which translates into revenue from their advertisers.

Understood, but this would be a very disproportionate ratio of good impact (hundreds preventing millions from being exposed to terrorist trash) versus 'helping' google with a few hundred extra hits.

Your call...

[tsowellfan]

You're helping Google when you visit their site raising the number of hits which translates into revenue from their advertisers.

Hmm... sounds like we're helping communists to participate in and taste good ole capitalism. COUNT ME IN!

[DBrow]

It’s when you click a Google ad that they get paid. Viewing an ad generates no revenue for them. Don’t click an ad, no money gets transferred.

Google put a mechanism in Youtube where people like us can ask them to take down offensive material (they didn’t have to do that), and the method described here does that and works without giving them a penny.

I distrust Google as you do and worry that they will get too much power. But, at least, there is a way to get bad stuff off Youtube. And I must emphasize, if you don’t click a Google ad they don’t get paid. They may use unique pageviews in their advertising to tell ad customers how effective their product is (advertising their services costs them money), but Google gets no money unless there is a clickthrough.

[Mr. Silverback]

You're helping Google when you visit their site raising the number of hits which translates into revenue from their advertisers. Count me out.

As a veteran, I really appreciate you standing up for the troops. After all, who would want to act against people glorifying the killing of American soldiers if it might get in the way of some petty political concern?