Your business problems aren't our concern. If you're financing your business by stealing personal information from users and selling it to data brokers, then you're a crook. Crooks tend to have high hosting expenses.
The only website that you know I use is this one. Are you saying that you run HN? I do not think you are that person.
If that's not the site you're referring to, I'm rather curious to know what site it is that you run, that's had 100m users since 2004(!), that can correlate a site user with this HN user. Will you tell, please?
And yes, your expenses aren't our problem. Don't run a website if you can't pay for it.
I don't have much sympathy for your predicament. Perhaps the market has a better use for your hosting facility than pumping out ads and tracking scripts.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targeted-ads-offer-little-...
The ad networks get a lot more for tracking based ads, and the advertisers supposedly get more conversions (though targeting fraud is a real, well-documented thing).
If following the requirements of society makes your business unprofitable, too bad, having a business is optional, following the requirements of society is not.
Correct. I've only run a handful of websites in my life, but not one of them has ever served ads.
