I always use an ad blocker when browsing the web so I usually don't see advertisements but recently I disabled it to see what the site looks like here with ads. To my surprise, there were tons of ads! Way too many. There were more ads than content!
I went to check my Google Adsense account to see how much money if any was actually being made from all these ads. Turns out the amount was very small. Were talking maybe a few pennies a day. My last Adsense payout was almost 2 years ago! And Google does not let you cash out unless you get to at least $100.
I realized that for the amount of ads that were spamming my site, it was not worth it to be making just a few cents per day. I would rather just not have any ads and give the reader a much better experience on the site. So as of today I have removed the ads and closed the Google Adsense account.
I don't post as much on this site as I used to, but it still has a lot of articles going back many years and the old articles still get traffic so at least now these articles can be read without being bombarded with a bunch of ads.
