Advertisements seemed to be the way until recently, where it doesn’t seem like advertising is at all a valid way to make money.
Crypto mining, while good tech, was abused far too much to where any ethical solutions made are just going to be tacked into the same category as the unethical ones.
Subscriptions are popping up a lot more, but I’m not sure that’s the best way to do things.
Donations seems like a valid way, but that relies on people actually caring enough to find something.
For the sake of discussion, let’s talk about smaller websites/businesses as opposed to huge companies like The Hard R, Amazon, etc…
How do you think the web should be monetized?
I think ads could still work fine, the issue is that Google has more or less ruined the advertising environment.
Donations are great, almost no matter the size. If you have a big user base there will be people with money to burn it a desire to see whatever you got flourish. If you are a tiny a porn project anyone into your little niche is going to be willing to throw support your way.
Subscriptions suck, depending on what they do. If they provide the only access then your service will never take off. If they just give you cool stuff on top of whatever it is you’re already doing then you are just rewarding reoccurring donations, which probably works best.