[ycIsGarbage]

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Ads are toxic and privacy-destroying. Give me the option of sending you a couple bucks and I’ll gladly do so, but no, I will not let some horrible ad network run arbitrary JavaScript on my processor to drain my battery, spy on me, and waste my attention on more shit I don’t need or want.

[dang]

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Trollish usernames aren't allowed here (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), even when they're trolling YC or whatever, so I've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

[V__]

I (genuinely) wonder, how often have you paid authors for their articles/blog posts?

[londons_explore]

I run a website of guides, and have a paypal donate button, and I think about 1 in 10,000 visitors donate. Donations are mostly $1 or so, but I got a $1000 one once.

Overall, a substantially lower return than ads.

[aspenmayer]

How much do you make per 10,000 visitors? The ads you refer to, are they billed by CPM or CPI?

[Cerium]

Not the poster, but I have a Patreon account full of my favorite bloggers and YouTubers.