"But ads are needed to refinance free stuff". NO. They are not. Donations are tax-exempt so you can finance free stuff like openbsd and libressl. Advertiseme

"But ads are needed to refinance free stuff". NO. They are not. Donations are tax-exempt so you can finance free stuff like openbsd and libressl. Advertisements are a sneaky way to sell your visitors eyes to sneaky businesses. They are pollution. In all kinds of media they appear in, TV, Radio, Internet, books. They destroy the media they target - until people move on to more greener freer pastures, then the advertisements come and pollute everything, until the information is so diluted of content it is no longer serving as a media of information and instead only serves, the people selling advertisements, disinformation. If you cant finance your website, the first option should be call for donations, if that doesnt work then bankrupt it, call it what it is, unsustainable business, rather than selling it to advertisers and selling your visitors out. That is actually a form of bankrupt, its just slower and everyone looses except the people selling ads, and they are so ashamed of it they dont even call it advertisement business - theyre always switching names, from propaganda to advertising to PR and social media marketing. A world without advertising is possible.