I recently moved most of my sites to a tip jar only and removed the ads. I have always done better via tips or donations than via ad money.<p>This is only a tragedy of the commons if we find no other means to fund things we value and expect to have access to online. The Internet is here to stay. You are only an asshole if you hate ads, use adblocker and are <i>also</i> unwilling to fund the sites you use via some other means. There is nothing inherently evil about hating ads and choosing to block them. But if you expect to get all online content and services for free, then you de facto desire to treat someone, somewhere as your slave in some sense.<p>So if you use ad blockers and want services you value to stick around, please, out of enlightened self interest, support and promote alternate funding models that you find more palatable. And if your answer really boils down to &quot;I expect everything for free!&quot; then, yeah, go die in a fire.