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Originally Posted by John
I can completely understand why you would want to do this. But look at it from the following point of view: What do you think might happen to GreekChat if you are successful in getting too many viewers to cut off GC's primary source of funding (advertising)? In that scenario, how would you suggest I pay for the costs of running GC? There are other options, but my guess is that most viewers will prefer advertising be on the site as compared to the alternative.
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I nearly didn't post for exactly this reason - however, you of all people probably understand that there are whitelist-based solutions that will allow Google Ad Services to receive a hit/pageview while a.) not being intrusive and b.) not violating their Terms of Service. If you'd like to post a tutorial, I'd encourage it, because the ads suck as currently implemented, and it's hard to justify changing my current browsing setup (including potentially compromising security, a much larger potential cost to me as a user) as a result.
I think the majority of users will remain altruistic and that you'll make more than enough to cover server costs. Should that prove not to be the case, let me know and I'll reconsider.