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Do you lose trust if a site sells out it's home page?

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As many people here know, I worked for Yahoo. Years ago, they didn't sell out their home page (in the 1990's...it didn't last long). However, Google is now more than ten years old, and they have never ran ads on their home page. They have ran promotions for other Google products...but, you can't buy space there, no matter how much money you have.

So, too, with FunAdvice. We don't have ads on our home page. It's the front door, it's the first place many people get to, when they hear about us from a friend.

However: if we did put ads on our home page, would you lose faith? Trust? To me, the company that puts ads on the home page is saying, "I want to make money off of you, before you even try out my product"...which is why I don't think we ever will. However, I gotta say, I'm curious, what you guys think, if we had ads on our home page?