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Originally posted by LEE123
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Meksilon
The truth is there are other options.
yes? like? You would be the first one in years who would come up with an alternative if this was true. So why don't you help the whole internet, and millions of user and enlighten Patchou with it? You would be famous doing it...
Adsense is an easier, cleaner way of allowing users to support Patchou. Anyone can do it without compromising their computer to advertisements. At the end of the day, I use Plus!, I want to support Patchou, but I'm not installing the sponsor.
Considering so many users visit the website, an adsense strip across pages would generate a huge sum of money each month. Hell, my website produces £200 a month and its program has only been downloaded 100,000 times. I see Patchou making a significantly larger amount of money per month.
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are other ways.
Adsense wouldn't be enough, here's why:
1. Very few people visit the website once they've actually got the program, it's not a YouTube or Digg where the users keep visiting for the content.
2. The bandwidth plus uses is too much to be supported by Adsense alone, with so many people downloading so many sounds when using the sounds feature, it takes a lot of might to keep it going. Might that can't be paid for with that little money.
3. Messenger Plus takes a lot of coding... therefore for it to be as good, it has to be Patchou's full time job. So it has to make enough money for him to live comfortably off it AND pay for all that bandwidth I just mentioned. That needs a lot more than £200 a month... and yes, I know it'd fetch more than that, but not enough more.
I don't like the adware, but I see it's necessity, and you can see Adsense would NOT be enough. Maybe adsense, and text links / other adverts in plus menus and preferences, could that fetch enough? And would people even prefer enforced ads in program to optional ads???
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