Do you think advertisers are necessary? Personally, I think that adding these ads can make your club looks less professional. Your club won't have many access, AFAIK, as the club is restricted. You revenue will be very small from those ads, and the cost to users (privacy, overall website experience, etc) will be much greater than the gains.
If Vod wants to add advertisement in the website, I think that he is on a liberty to do so. But I do agree with you,
it kind of contradicts with the privacy of the website when advertiser can barge in to get some data trail on visitors. If you place the ads in the correct places and make it look like part of the aesthetics, I think that it will work out fine though.
This doesn't mean that you will not be able to monetize from website views. You can find a partner or a sponsor or even donators/investors. You can add their logos in your website without ruining user experience.
Sponsorship is still an advertisement with extra steps,
I would love the donator/investor but how can the website attract these people, there are some people that hates Vod and they will definitely go for this project and try to ruin it. If you can do the logos for investors and sponsors then you can do it with the advertisers, and the only problem is that you should be smart with creating the website.
1) Does not contradict with privacy at all. We host the banner, and every IP address in our database / IIS log is changed to 127.0.0.1. The advertiser gets stats on the number of unique impressions, which is based on club membership, not IP addresses.
2) a)I don't care about the type of people that hate me here. Outside of this forum exist millions of people who want to get into bitcoin but are scared to come here because of those people, and those people only
think they have influence.
b) Before you register, identify the friends you want to sponsor - you don't want to be throwing money away on English illiterates who will never pass a Grade 3 test. If you want to donate further, we will need funding for the initial micro-tasks (to create specialized skills), so again your money will go towards the bitcoin community at large and not me.
c) Regarding trust and investment. I'm launching my tools for free here to regain the trust stole by that ponzi scammer/liar. There is zero benefit for these idiots other than trading their time to annoy small groups of people. I've already done most of the work, so if you have a custom idea for investment (once I refresh my website), let me know.