Maybe he needs to rethink his strategy. Take some ads. Business is not the enemy.
I’m dead serious. Let’s talk about this.
You cannot take ads without taking the enemy on board.
God knows I’ve sometimes disagreed with Jim, but on this he is bang on the money.
You can go to Breitbart and get smothered in vile Democrat/Communist cr*p, and automatically put money in *their* pocket.
How about you buying the first one? Click the 'donate' button in the post above yours. Become a monthly donor. Your 'name' on the monthly donor list will then serve as your ad for all to see that you are a customer of the 'business.'
I am not privy to the donor information so I have no way of knowing whether you donate to help defray the costs of your use of the software, server space, and intellectual property that your presence here indicates that you utilize. I do note that you are not displayed on the last list of monthly donors that I looked at.
Your comment has been replied to at length many times over the course of many FReepathons and the reasons it has been and will continue to be discarded have been put forward enough times that you should have no trouble finding them if your 'suggestion' was made out of ignorance of those facts.
Then on the other hand, maybe you feel, like the majority of those of kindred spirit in Detroit, that you 'deserve' FR welfare and you can use the service for free. That is within your rights as the web site is offered without charge with only a donation request. But, if you are the recipient of FR welfare instead of a supporting donor, you have removed any standing for yourself to comment on the aspects of running the site.
A closing thought.. if you don't like FReepathons, pony up the final $1.7k and it will all be over, and instead of coming across as a curmudgeon, you'll be a hero!!
Malware is, and malware in ads is a problem.
As for me? One infection in 10 or so years, and it was from an ad on a very mainstream site. I was between my old standalone adblocker and any of the modern integrated ones.
Bad enough some ad company serves an infected ad slipped in by an unscrupulous sort...can you imagine the outright targeting that would happen if it were known ads would be here?
Business owns NBC, ABC, and CBS. Are you stupid?