The reasoning behind this is simple. Money.

Every click on a Google ad generates a small amount of revenue for the AAF. They're at the bottom of every page, and they're easily ignorable. They're context-sensitive, so you should receive ads that are at least vaguely relevant to the page you're looking at. I don't control what ads are shown, so don't complain to me if the ads are wildly inappropriate.

Putting Google Ads on this website has been approved by the Council.