I should read my Etsy email more often. Now I need to move my little sideline to a different market. Etsy is getting all greedy. Time to make my own website and

I should read my Etsy email more often. Now I need to move my little sideline to a different market. Etsy is getting all greedy. Time to make my own website and cut out a middle-bot. Since most of my sales are from my own word-of-mouth - a google ad is a worthless investment. All that will happen is someone who has a gmail account will purchase from me, google will notice this, present an ad then I'll get charged for the ad on next purchase. Nice little earner for Google and Etsy but useless to me. Opt out? Sure, but I'm sure there's a stinger somewhere in the terms that will cost me in some obscure way. No thanks. Its actually worth me spending 40 hours figuring out an alternative. Then be done with them completely. More likely I'll replace Etsy with a simple investment of 5 - 8 hours. For those curious, I sometimes make wooden furniture as a hobby. These are one-offs. Sometimes on commission/custom order but otherwise I usually sell one piece a week. So no, I don't use google ads etc. I'm not a mass-produce kind of operation and my customers know it. Its part of the appeal.