I have a great deal to figure out, as far as this is concerned.
For one thing, PayPal and I don’t necessarily get along the best but that is the main option that I have for receiving ad funds. Time will tell whether or not we can resolve our differences and whether or not that will even be worth attempting.
Also, some of my content is more family-friendly than others, and that is what the advertisers seem to want. That’s fine for the advertisers, but some of what I want to publish is not necessarily the most PG-13 of content. I hope that other people enjoy it, but even if they don’t I see that as more of a them problem than it is a me problem. I don’t like being censored and I don’t necessarily agree to the terms and conditions, but I don’t have the opportunity to negotiate them it’s a take it-or-leave it situation and there is no button to withdraw from the ad program or to refuse the terms & conditions either. Furthermore, it was not disclosed that clicking to join WordAds was a one-way street with no possibility of return. However I have thus far refused to save any settings, so I am not sure that I am considered to be enrolled. This is a highly manipulative and unethical way of doing business, I have no idea how this is even allowed.
However, up to this point there are no dollars on the table, no one seems to have reviewed this site or its content, and so far it is not even a little bit of an issue.
However, should it become an issue in the future, here is my current plan: I am going to write what I want and post what I want. I do not wish or intend to post anything illegal, but since this is the USA there isn’t much of anything that is illegal and the few things that are aren’t worth posting anyway so that isn’t likely to be an issue. We may be fascist and authoritarian about a lot of things, but we have (mostly) done a pretty good job with First Amendment stuff. I’m free to post whatever I want, and you are free to dislike it.
However if this becomes an issue, or if I wake up one day and find that I am leaving a sufficiently large amount of money on the table by refusing to kowtow to the advertisers, what is probably going to happen is that I will continue to publish whatever I want but some content will end up having to be either de-advertised or paywalled.
Exactly what would happen at that point is a bridge that I would have to cross when I get there. Because I love the free and open Internet which is dying, I hope I don’t have to paywall content. If that does end up having to happen, I would like to try to keep the price minimal so that there are as few barriers to its enjoyment as possible. Having said that, if I get the opportunity to make money like an OnlyFans model off of it, I’m probably not going to pass that up because I’m only human, there are things that I would like to do in real life, and a gigantic pile of money makes a lot of those things easier.
Rest assured, however, that I am pretty sure that I am in no danger of accumulating any gigantic piles of money any time soon.
I hope you are at least as irritated as I am. Thank you for your time and attention.
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