[dayvster]

Author of the article and owner of the site here.

Google changes the amount and placement of the ads depending what "ad market" you are from so US and other similar countries might experience more ad placements than lower ad market countries.

I tried spinning it down to basically minimal ads in adsense settings and it's still quite a lot.

I strongly encourage the use of adblockers or pi-hole even on my site and see no problem with using them on my site.

The income from adsense just about covers the hosting bills in a year so far, I'm currently exploring alternative methods of monetization that would provide more value to the readers.

[porridgeraisin]

> hosting costs

Your using page says you use astro, so I assume you have a static site. Isn't any of the free hosts (GitHub, cloudflare) sufficient for that?

[dayvster]

Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself?

I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.

I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.

add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year

My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.

So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.

I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.

But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)

Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.