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P.S. No donation is necessary for schools, kids shouldn’t see ads.
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The only way we can keep Universe Today running is through advertising. Without the ads, we’d shut down the site. But we know that many of you would be perfectly happy to pitch in to help us keep covering stories. We could run the site completely on donation too, but honestly, advertising is the model that makes the most sense to cover our expenses.
As I think of new ideas to sweeten the pot, like giveaways, member meetups, and special offers, we’ll release them to members.
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It’s a lifetime membership. One donation, and you’re set for life – never see another ad on Universe Today. With advances in robots and computer technology, you might be able to live until the end of the Universe, so that’s a great deal.
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I’m not planning to create some kind of paywall; non-members will always be able to read any article in the site. There won’t be a culture of have and have-nots, of space and space-nots. There’ll just be the advertisees and the non-advertisees.
Oh, and you’ll probably never learn the secret space handshake (if anyone wants to invent a space handshake, I’d be grateful).
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3. Email me and let me know your Universe Today username and I’ll switch you over to a member account.
Been a long time reader, don’t really mind the ads but I won’t pass up a chance to give you guys something back.
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you guys just now started putting ads in between the articles, so ya…. what a great way to scam, us “lets put ads on the site then charge them for us to take the ads off” yea good luck.
The ads have been around forever… though they have been re-arranged from time to time.
But yes, I fully expect this comment thread to attract the highest levels of trolling and whinging.
Meanwhile I’ll be donating – in fact I’ve been hoping for a long while that the UT would do just this!
I don’t think there’ll be a lot of whining. I’d be interested to see if Richard takes me up on my offer and values the site at $.01.
I do re-arrange ads all the time. I’m always looking to fine-tune things and get that balance between revenue and annoyance.
Now that I have a way that the annoyed can opt out of ads for any price they like, I can crank up the annoyance. 😉
You could donate $.01 and remove the ads forever. How is that a scam?
UT has ads on it??
Is there any way to give regularly autonomously (e.g. $10 per month)?
I don’t think an ongoing membership really works – that’s the kind of thing I’d do if there was a paywall. But I don’t like paywalls, so, this was the compromise I could think of.
Happy to put my paypal payment where my interest lies. Keep up the great work!
I like this a lot. Thank you! The only complaint I have ever had about this site had to do with the recommend pop up. I really like the work you do. I can never get enough clear science news/info.