I see no problem stating that, so it has been added to the donate/premium page under its own section.

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Quoting: GuestIt's going off on a tanget from ads, but...

If Liam needs to relax, and a [choose your vice] does the job, then that actually helps GOL. Trying to write articles, or even do research for them, isn't the job of a machine, it's the job of a person.

With regards to ads, it's unfortunate that they're needed, but they are. Not blocking them, or donating, or both, is how we can actively help keeps sites we like afloat.

I also like to think how much I used to spend on magazines and newspapers. And they were loaded with ads. Compared to that, not adblocking here seems...trivial.

Bingo, I am a person, everything takes time, time is money and time I could spend out looking for what other people would consider a "real" job.

I will probably do a monthly reminder on this issue.

If any adverts come up that are dubious/malware you should report them to me asap along with the url they go to for me to block it. I can't make the ads better if people don't let me know :)

As for a few people mentioning the size of the advert above the comments, I can do a weeks test on a horizontal advert rather than a square and see what it's like.

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Quoting: tigerWhat about a "Game of the week" banner on top of the page, where a developer pays a small fee to GOL for appearing there for 1 week and giving away a code to your readers for buying the game with a small discount or something.

Just some random thoughts

For that you need to actually get developers on-board, most don't want to spend the money.

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Like i said before GOL is a service, do you ask say spotify what their employees spend subscription money on? People pay for GOL Premium or see adverts both give me income to pay for anything i need, and quite frankly it's a breach of my own privacy to state everything i need/want to use money on. Not that I mend telling people that their money goes on hosting, food, rum, food, games + everything else.

I won't be setting any mark on an amount of money we need as there is no set amount i need to live.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3stuff

If people don't notify us about bad adverts, how are we to know? We can easily block certain adverts, but don't shout from the hills when no one has reported that until now.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3This site is your only form of income?

Not my only no, but one of my main ones.

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Quoting: tigerLiam have you tried with sponsored reviews?
I mean, "fair" sponsored reviews, where you alert your readers it's sponsored and "might" be a biased (nothing wrong with it IMO)

We actually did a test once, this was the outcome: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-quick-message-on-sponsored-articles-my-apologies.3448

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Quoting: Playing Penguin SupporterBTW: You are thinking about other payment options?

I'm open to suggestions as always.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3P.S. I think it would be good if you published your monthly financial reports so that we KNOW where all the money is going rather than assuming it's just buying you another 6-pack for example.

I don't agree with that at all, people donate/pay for gol premium on the basis that it's to keep GOL going, it's my choice to use it on whatever I need to make that happen. It's income for me plain and simple.

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Quoting: E911You should try to get financial funding in a different way - Flattr or something.

We have a flattr button on every article and the donate page, flattr seems nice, but it's not used a lot.

For example flattr gave me this for the entire of May: €1.52.

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