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’ve had a small website running for just under 20 years now. It barely uses any bandwidth and it’s super cheap, so I just pay for it myself. No ads or even Javascript (works fine in text browsers such as lynx). Not everything has to be about making money. In the early days of the web it was more about sharing information. Maybe we can try that again?