U must be tard to pay money for such shity services, in my country its cheap as hell. Today most providers have unlimited bandwidth, just ROFL these arguments are so bad, if its so costly for you delete ur site pls, we dont need internet of ppl like u…this is just common bullshit & and pls delete this comment to show ur censorship of opinion coz its ‘democratic’ at least u will have some work to do..

What I do on my site and how I choose to monetize my site is my business. If this is how you feel, I suggest you stop wasting my bandwidth and find some other site to spam!

Of course you find it obnoxious. You’re one of the site owners.

I’m not saying you don’t deserve any money for what you put on your website. I know what it takes to build websites, and I know what it takes to manage the content. You take a lot of time. But why does that matter to me, and why am I responsible for any of it, when I went to google, typed in a question, and was brought here to read maybe a paragraph of what I actually wanted to read.

What I don’t get is why explore such a destructive form of monetizing the website, when there are tons of other ways to monetize it.

Sell merchandise.
Sell services.
Sell sponsored articles.
Sell subscriptions for return visitors.
Sell courses/books.

Yet you pick the one that takes the lowest amount of work and the least amount of time to implement, while not caring that it is the absolute most destructive form of monetizing one’s website in terms of user experience.

Don’t oversell your regurgitated information, as if I (a random passerby from google) owe you anything for the paragraph that I read, while searching for something out of pure curiosity.

That’s like me walking down the street, reading a note on a bulletin board, and then some dude to the side trying to charge me a dime for reading his flyer, because it cost him money to print it off.

Monetize people who actually come back to your site regularly. Try to monetize random passerby’s by acting like they’re responsible for your content, just because they glanced at it? You’re going to get a lot of middle fingers that way.

Always funny to me when people disagree with something that I say, and for some reason that clicks the idea into their mind that I “know nothing about” the subject at hand.

You have a different opinion about how the internet should work. That’s all.

All I did was point out the irony of someone explaining how to avoid fingerprinting, and then forcing their readers to be exposed to the biggest form of fingerprinting on the internet (ads).

There are plenty of ways to monetize one’s website that do not involve destroying user experience. Merchandise, sponsored articles, subscription services for return-visitors, sell courses, etc… Ads have become quite the passive, lazy, and most destructive way to monetize one’s website.

There are better ways, to allow some sites and block others. But effective blocking must be at the operating system, or hardware level, not just on the browser. People just have no idea how complicated and layered the Internet is. Also, they are not willing, or incapable of learning.