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Why do you consider Google Adsense&Analytics the only possibility for monitization?

When we look at publishers who publish in English for the whole world, the situation is like this:

Adsense pays low and has ok protection from malicious ads.

All other players I know pay even lower and feature more aggressive/malicious ads. While also being in the USA and having even more questionable data handling.

If the European free and English internet turns of adsense right now, many of these publishers are bankrupt in that very moment.

Ads are less and less common for monetisation. Most websites have switched to some form of affiliate marketing.

Citation needed i think, especially for european sites.

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