A site that brings in money by showing ads generally makes under $10 per 1000 visits (CPM) so at most $0.01 per visit. Even if we make unrealistically positive assumptions (they’re getting very high CPMs, they donate 100% of the money, the money goes to charities that are as valuable as the AMF) then $10 to the AMF does as much good as visiting the Hunger Site daily for three years. With the same unrealistically positive assumptions, if this takes you 10s each time then you’re working for under $3.60/hr.
So I think this is probably not worth looking into further. Volunteering to look at ads just doesn’t bring in that much money so even if you got the best possible answers to your questions it wouldn’t make sense.
(Similarly, I don’t think trying to clone a site like this and run it targeted at GiveWell top charities would be worth it either.)
I see things similar to the Hunger Site pop up pretty frequently in large EA Facebook groups, and will share this comment whenever it happens (the numbers may be a bit different, e.g. for “donate while you shop” sites, but the general thought pattern of “can I donate to not think about this?” seems very useful).
A site that brings in money by showing ads generally makes under $10 per 1000 visits (CPM) so at most $0.01 per visit. Even if we make unrealistically positive assumptions (they’re getting very high CPMs, they donate 100% of the money, the money goes to charities that are as valuable as the AMF) then $10 to the AMF does as much good as visiting the Hunger Site daily for three years. With the same unrealistically positive assumptions, if this takes you 10s each time then you’re working for under $3.60/hr.
So I think this is probably not worth looking into further. Volunteering to look at ads just doesn’t bring in that much money so even if you got the best possible answers to your questions it wouldn’t make sense.
(Similarly, I don’t think trying to clone a site like this and run it targeted at GiveWell top charities would be worth it either.)
Thanks. I just gave $10 to the AMF and set a reminder to do so again next year (although I hope to be in the giving-10%-of-income category by then).
I see things similar to the Hunger Site pop up pretty frequently in large EA Facebook groups, and will share this comment whenever it happens (the numbers may be a bit different, e.g. for “donate while you shop” sites, but the general thought pattern of “can I donate to not think about this?” seems very useful).