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As for "adverts are needed to pay for sites"... meh, sites should produce content people value enough to want to support.
Valuable to whom is an interesting debate... LFGSS is valuable to two audiences fairly equally, those on here who choose to donate and pay for more than half the costs, and the shops that receive sales as a result of recommendations and cover the remainder of costs.
I like that LFGSS's value is direct... no middle-men involved, and no need for adverts.
That said, I may give the affiliates more prominence, but if I do ever do that there won't be an ad server in sight, no cookies being placed, no animated banners or contextualised recommendations, just a simple "Shopping with these partners helps to support us: (list of partner logos)" thing.
Because we're valuable directly to those two audiences, we're in the good position of not needing any adverts at all.
Of course... the downside is that I'm hemorrhaging Google Analytics information as barely 20% of requests are recorded due to ad blockers (that I'm encouraging). The real loser in all of this are websites who are losing data that helps them understand the needs of their audience.