Mercat: >> “I’ll donate more when we start having banner ads.” <<
e-s: You haven’t thought it out too well.
We are a political opinion site, and advertisers tend to want to control the sites on which they advertise. If we become dependent on banners, we risk our freedom of expression since the ebb and flow of funding would be subject to outside forces that do not share our views.
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That aside, I’m afraid that if there are banner ads, people aren’t going to see the need to donate and donations will fall.
To place google ads on a site you just copy a java script snippet into your page. Add runners DO NOT want to control sites, that’s rediculous.