Okay, I have had enough of Google’s ridiculous bullshit plans to take over all data in the world surreptitiously and I am going to be pulling Google AdSense from *all* of my websites.

Right now, it looks like I have four main options for how to proceed:

1. Pull AdSense and do not replace it with anything.
2. Pull AdSense and replace it with a direct competitor: something like Yahoo
3. Pull AdSense and replace it with an indirect competitor: something like IntelliTXT or Kontera (which I know most people hate, but which I think may be a more viable long-term business model as we move towards “web layers” - more on that sometime soon)
4. Pull AdSense and ask for sustaining contributions from readers on a regular basis.

My main thing is this: I make on average a reliable $200-250 per month via AdSense. I don’t want to lose that revenue, but I am hell-bent on step-by-step removing ALL of my data from Google and eliminating their ownership of my datawake. The shit they are doing is *just not right* in my estimation, whether or not it is expressly “evil.”

This means I need to find another way to make *at least* that much money per month. My short-term idea was this: pull AdSense and post a one-time request through ChipIn or similar donation site for a$500. That much will cover my revenue loss for a period equivalent to two months. During that time, I will experiment with a couple other ad systems, making my experimentation and the financial results public (without violating any TOS agreements, of course) so that you can benefit from my experimentation - if not necessarily from my advertising.

I also want to install and have handy tools for regular visitors to automatically or avoid advertisements on my site. This would mean a programmatic way of removing ads for people who comment all the time, or else offering a quick link and instructions to a FireFox plugin or similar to scrub the ads from the user experience.

The other option in all of this is to ask for voluntary monthly subscriptions from readers. I really don’t know how much reading this site is worth to the average person, but if 25 people could support it with donations of $10/month, or half as many for $20/month, then that would be pretty nice.

I’m not yet financially in a position where I can just pull ads altogether and not bother with subscriptions or anything though. But other ideas, suggestions, etc would be most welcome. I’m also about to install as a test a bug tracker system for “power users” withing this realm to interact on another plane. So your tax dollars are hard at work! Let me know what you think.