Of these sites, how many do you use regularly? How would you feel if they had
to shut down their services? If the thought scares you, just think about how
easily you could support them. All of these sites have millions of users, if
even a small portion of them would willingly give some money to support them,
they would easily stay in business.
How much are these services worth to you? $20 each per month? - if only all of
us had that much! How about a quarter? $0.25/mo for ALL of the sites listed
above is only $5.25/mo... the price of a cheeseburger. And I doubt you use ALL
of those, so the cost to you would be even lower. It may not seem like much
to you, but a million people giving only a quarter comes out to $3 million a
year - half of Wikipedia's annual budget.
Are Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia worth a measly quarter a month to you?
How many do you use regularly? How much is the equivalent commercial
software? How would you react if you found out there wouldn't be any more
updates to the programs you use? Would you be willing to spend $0.25/mo to
make sure updates kept coming regularly? Many millions of people use these
programs regularly, but only 20,000 people giving $0.25 per month would easily
support a full-time developer. We can find more than 20,000 people willing to
pay for free software, right?
Would you give a paltry quarter a month for any of the software above?
Advertising sucks, we know. Its whole purpose is to distract you and trick you
into doing something you wouldn't normally do. But it's a necessary evil on
the internet, otherwise website operators would have no way to pay for the cost
of hosting their free content, and other websites would have no way of letting
you know about their services or products. Unless you block them, there's no
way to completely rid the internet of ads -- website operators would have no
way to pay the bills, and would have to close the very sites you love to use!
If you run Ad Block Plus or NoScript, you are robbing them of income - using
BetterThanAds gives you a way to rectify that.
BetterThanAds provides a simple, secure, and inexpensive way to support the
sites you love without breaking the bank. Willingly giving your change to the
sites you visit most can displace ad income, and release website operators
from the need to display ads. You don't even have to think about it, you just
install our plugin and then surf the web as you normally would. At the end of
each month, we divide up any amount you decide on (say, $5) based on your
usage, say $0.53 to Facebook, $0.30 to Twitter, $0.22 to Wikipedia.
Do you block ads? Are you willing to pay a few bucks a month to offset them?
OpenOffice.org
Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc)
The GIMP
Pidgin
PuTTY
OpenSSH
Apache
Blender
WordPress
Drupal
Joomla!
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Eclipse
Linux
GNOME
KDE
Subversion
Git
Vim
GNU (Emacs, GTK, GRUB, GCC, GnuPG, GLib, many more)
Twitter
Facebook
Of these sites, how many do you use regularly? How would you feel if they had to shut down their services? If the thought scares you, just think about how easily you could support them. All of these sites have millions of users, if even a small portion of them would willingly give some money to support them, they would easily stay in business.
How much are these services worth to you? $20 each per month? - if only all of us had that much! How about a quarter? $0.25/mo for ALL of the sites listed above is only $5.25/mo... the price of a cheeseburger. And I doubt you use ALL of those, so the cost to you would be even lower. It may not seem like much to you, but a million people giving only a quarter comes out to $3 million a year - half of Wikipedia's annual budget.
Are Facebook, Twitter, or Wikipedia worth a measly quarter a month to you?