No more Carbon

A personal blog author shares their decision to remove Carbon Ads from their website after 13 years. Data analysis reveals total earnings of ~$670 over 8 tracked years, averaging $74/year, with recent years yielding as little as $25 in the last 12 months. The decision was driven by diminishing returns, reduced personal traffic, and the overhead of maintaining ad-related code and layout. Benefits include improved reader experience, simpler codebase, and slightly better page performance from removing Carbon's JavaScript bundle.