Yes this works for websites with a large user base, me and my friends made a better wiki than existing one for an old game we all play, we tried using ads but we barely made pennies, we switched to using a “support us” tab in menu and we earned about $3 a month, more than unregulated ads that had a lot of sexual content.
We didn’t hope to profit, heck one of us was actually running it on their own server, but the money was enough to pay for domain name and anything else was given to main programmer.
Yes this works for websites with a large user base, me and my friends made a better wiki than existing one for an old game we all play, we tried using ads but we barely made pennies, we switched to using a “support us” tab in menu and we earned about $3 a month, more than unregulated ads that had a lot of sexual content.
We didn’t hope to profit, heck one of us was actually running it on their own server, but the money was enough to pay for domain name and anything else was given to main programmer.