Add the extension to your browser and it tracks which sites you spend your time on. Someone needs to come in and make a voluntary content network. The issue is that it's too difficult for readers to have a subscription to everything. I'm going to try again soon, with more savings, so hopefully I can make it further before having to give up and having to find another software job. Even though I work remotely more now and less in the office, I still find my career choice mind numbing. I had some publications under my belt this time, but still very few professors would even talk to me about my work in sensor network research (BigSense). I had attempted this a few years ago, but my grades for undergrand and grad school weren't all that great (2.5/3.2), and it pretty much killed my chances. My goal was to get into University and work on a PhD. I got some OSS done, redid all my websites and wrote a lab manual for a friend of mine who was teaching a class based on the stuff I wrote. Last time I quit my job I lived for 11 months off my savings while travelling in over 10 countries.

I'm not famous, but I do love working on my own open source projects and I like writing tech posts. I'd like to be able to live off it, and I'll see how it goes. I'm trying to post more, and am working on graphics so I can setup a Patreon. Isn't this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere. That means you can continue doing it as a labor of love, scale it down to something you can manage and that is profitable, or just, well, accept that your site isn't as great as you thought it was, and that you won't be making as much money off of it as you thought.

You don't have enough of a readership to support your website as-is. Well, there you go! To me, that's where it should end. The inevitable response to that is, 'but I don't make enough money off of that.' The answer is clear, it's just not what people want to hear: metered paywalls or a subscription model (or, you know, selling an actual product / service). People ask the 'how do we fix dwindling ad-based revenue' question all the time. If my limited edition, 250-prints-per-month 'zine isn't making money, is that the advertising industry's fault, or is there an issue with my expectations? popular), why should one expect their site to be profitable from ads alone?

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