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At the time (this is a long time ago) we looked into that; there were (maybe are, luckily we left ads behind) many conspiracy theories and angry blog posts from people who had their life wrecked by an algorithm without any way to defend themselves. Nothing came of it and we/I learned that you cannot count on Paypal or Google for primary income; we switched to affiliate sales and traditional online card payments and we never looked back.



charging for product is significantly more solid than ads. it's not everyone's game though, not everyone has a sellable product.




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