Ploughboy

Free ads that don't track you.

Each ad is one image and one link. The frame sets no cookies, stores nothing, runs no analytics, and can't load anything from other sites. Embedding them is free as in beer and free and in freedom.

Embed the ads

Paste this where you want the ad. It shows a 700×90 banner that scales down to fit narrow screens.

<iframe class="ploughboy-ad" src="https://ploughboy.xyz/embed/"
	title="Advertisement" loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"
	sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin
		allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<style>
	.ploughboy-ad {
		display: block; margin: 0 auto; border: 0;
		width: 100%; max-width: 700px;
		height: auto; aspect-ratio: 700 / 90;
	}
</style>

Submit an ad

1. Fork the repository.
2. Put one 700×90 image in
3. Add an entry to static/ads/ads.json (below).
4. Run sh tools/check.sh and fix anything it reports.
5. Open a pull request.

{
	"link": "https://example.com/",
	"alt": "What the ad says, for people who can't see it",
	"image": "img/example.com.png",
	"user": "yourcodebergusername"
}

user is your codeberg username, so people can find and contact you.

Rules

• Images are PNG, exactly 700×90, up to 100 KB each.
• Images live in this repository. Ads can't load pictures or scripts from anywhere else.
• The link is https and goes where the ad says it does.
• user is a real codeberg username, so a submitter can be reached.
• Nothing misleading, hateful, sexual or harmful. I get the sole choise to decide what gets merged.
• Everything in the repository is CC0, including the ads you submit.

Questions or takedown requests: open an issue. See who's running ads and who's sponsoring them on the stats page.

FAQ

Who painted the banner?

The banner is A Ploughboy Riding One of a Pair of Draught-horses Up a Hill by John Frederick Tayler (English, 1802-1889)

About

Ploughboy exists to promote things people have put love and care into: a personal website, a Minecraft server, a charity, a local boxing club, an indie game, even a political or religious link, as long as it's said without hate. If it doesn't track visitors, isn't bloated or heavy on JavaScript, and isn't something hateful (or something I just don't like), it'll probably get merged in. Ploughboy itself costs nothing to self-host or to run on somewhere like GitHub Pages or Codeberg Pages, so running your own copy is free too. Starting from scratch? Land Chad is a good place to learn how to host a website worth promoting.

This project was inspired by Mothvertising