I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
no ads for me there ) Maybe b’coz I’m NoScript user ))
The fun is that our local (Russian) Wikipedia gives Blender – the free Open Source software BEFORE “A blender (liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix …”
Some time will pass and any kitchen tools will be named anyhow but blender :)
Actually Ton is right. I think it depends on the computer setting. Mine has no sposored link at all, except at the bottom is “Ad related to blender : smoothie blender shop”.
The first 6 links all lead to blender related sites. (.org the first, graphicall, wikipedia, blendernation, blender cookie).
I don’t know if it related to the setting on my chrome, or how frequent i google stuff related to blender (and google + chrome remembers it, since I google under my account (did you google as an outsider or did you log in to gmail account?)
and I don’t know if adblock made the “kitchen blender ad” missing or was it due to i’m a gmail member.
Thank you for your effort. You do incredible things – no one supposed that your program will be so prominent on the background of commercial production.
Everyone who know enough Blender, can form all about being yourself dream about.
Ton’s half right…
I tried googling “blender”, and the first non-sponsored link is for blender.org, while the sponsored link above that is for a kitchen appliance…
no ads for me there ) Maybe b’coz I’m NoScript user ))
The fun is that our local (Russian) Wikipedia gives Blender – the free Open Source software BEFORE “A blender (liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix …”
Some time will pass and any kitchen tools will be named anyhow but blender :)
Actually Ton is right. I think it depends on the computer setting. Mine has no sposored link at all, except at the bottom is “Ad related to blender : smoothie blender shop”.
The first 6 links all lead to blender related sites. (.org the first, graphicall, wikipedia, blendernation, blender cookie).
I don’t know if it related to the setting on my chrome, or how frequent i google stuff related to blender (and google + chrome remembers it, since I google under my account (did you google as an outsider or did you log in to gmail account?)
and I don’t know if adblock made the “kitchen blender ad” missing or was it due to i’m a gmail member.
tl,dr: Ton was right :-)
We love you Ton! You do great job! And you unite us!
hahaha! “you get the 3d software and not the kitchen system” – this made my day!
Thank you for your effort. You do incredible things – no one supposed that your program will be so prominent on the background of commercial production.
Everyone who know enough Blender, can form all about being yourself dream about.
lol, I’m looking for the kitchen system. I’ve got a smoothie to make!!
awesome live footage from siggraph thx for sharing
“This is BLENDAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” )))))) Ton, you looks manly! :))