please, please tell me this is a delayed april fool's joke

[sophiaserpentia]

LJ will now offer accounts which display ads on your journal and friend's page

But, hey! They'll be targeted ads, based on the interests in your interest list. Congratulations, you all belong to a focus group now!

Comments

[alobar.livejournal.com]

The way I understand it, if I respond to a comment of someone with ads, I will see the ad when that page reloads.

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's so, but that's not what they are saying here:

For Paid or Permanent account holders: Your support has kept LJ alive and growing all these years. We appreciate your continued support and you will get the most features and the highest storage limits. You'll never see ads as long as you're logged in, and no one will see ads on your journal whether they're logged in or not.

[alobar.livejournal.com]

I hope you are right. You tend to scrutinize these sorts of things better than I do.

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

I hope you are right.

Oh, yeah, so do I. Or I'll be majorly pissed too.