Am I too late for this thread?
My 2c worth however, is that this makes the most sense (what Al says). If you cannot make money with your idea, then it's not a good idea. It wouldn't be free market if all ideas had to be profitable. That's the challenge of being in business, it's being able to cash in on an idea at all and overcoming different market challenges. If you can't make money with your website because you need to invade people's lifes with ads and drive your customer base away, you simply do not have a good business model and you will go down in flames, like gazilions of other failed businesses. You either adapt or you go down (unless you're in Quebec, then you pass laws and fuck people over, such as setting a minimal retail price for milk to protect unprofitable milk producers, artificially create rarity of a product such as maple syrup by limiting sales quotas, banning RHD cars because "ton chum de vendeur de char usagé" thinks it ain't good, or forcing large food retailers to keep staff to an ubearable minmum to force people to go the the convenience store (because indeed, convience stores need protection from my 24/7 ottawa lobelaws [which is fucking fantastic btw, nothing like doing your grocery at 4am]). I've been running adblock probably since it came out, and I'm absolutely baffled when I see other people's browsing. It's been so long that I've been running adblock that I litterally feel aggressed when I see all those fucking ads everywhere. I, for one, disapprove of all of those adverts, in fact, I make a point of trying to avoid buying products that are constantly being advertised to a point where they start annoying me. You walk in the streets, watch the telly, take the train, read the news, surf the web, open your mailbox, you cannot get a single second break from all this advertising. It's overwhelming, and on the internet, it's even worse. So I adblock, I noscript, I flashblock, and I will never stop. I do not have to lose half the bandwith on my mobile plan to load up ads, same thing for my internet at home. I do not care for any ads and if a business' model relies soley on that to make income, so be it, it's their decision. But my decisions is to load what I want, and I am completely insensitive as to whether or not this harms a business. I work for my money, you should work to find ideas to make money, and sitting on ad revenue and waiting for your cheque, then complaining when that doesn't work is, IMHO, akin to a BS sitting at home complaining his cheque is being cut cos he's eligible for work but won't go anyway. If the ad model doesn't work, earn your money and use you brains to try and turn a profit. If you can't, then tough rocks. Why should I pity you? It's nothing personnal either, it's just life. No one cried when Target went down in canada, or Eaton, or Steinberg, or a milion others. They couldn't make money, this aint charity, this is business, so back to ashes they went.