Until recently I basically lived of Adsense. But i never use the Internet without adblocker myself. Even on my phone and I help all my friends to get ad free as

Until recently I basically lived of Adsense. But i never use the Internet without adblocker myself. Even on my phone and I help all my friends to get ad free as well. The crazy thing for me is that I still did depend on ads to keep my free content alive. On the cheapest hosting option one of my sites would run into around $40 worth of hosting a month plus endless hours of moderation and 'fixing'. I did experiment with self hosted ads. Sorrily this is a pain in itself because for whatever reason a lot of adblockers block anything that appears like a obvious ad. Even self hosted images if they may are in a subdirectory called ads or have a id therelike. So I called everything 'meow' instead of ads. A month later a popular ad block list included a filter for my ads... (~3 million sessions/month) and my self hosted, non evil, non JS ads were blocked again. Not to mention that the income was not even a 10th. I still am undecided on the topic. But i want people to understand that especially Adsense is indeed important for small publishers. End of the story is i sold the site because Adsense started to pay less and less for more traffic and now a ad company is milking my back then only Adsense site with about 5 more trackers and ad networks...