I've been running a forum since 2007 and Adsense was the boon that paid for my university and made me money. I don't think I'll ever ask for donations again. P

I've been running a forum since 2007 and Adsense was the boon that paid for my university and made me money. I don't think I'll ever ask for donations again. Plopping a donation button on a website seems to do nothing but make users assume that other users must be donating. I've never seen donations go anywhere without active hustling/fundraising which makes the website feel like a desperate church. Look at how much effort Wikipedia goes through to ask for donations. And after all that work you'll always make less than you would with ads. Meanwhile, sticking Adsense code on a website makes you passive money that's less annoying to your users than a donation campaign.