Not a dig at parent, but a general observation.
That is what I said is a common trope, but is an inconvenience, hard to remember, and likely not done by many if any people. You don’t appear to do it either.
Same with your tip jar. You say small sites which isn’t wrong. However in your case you’re only topping the same 2 dozen sites you go to.
Not every site or app has the same engagement necessities. If a site can be visited much less but is very helpful, it’ll likely get much less tip money than a less helpful but regularly visited site that gets your dopamine going. I’m not saying this as fact. It’s something I believe could be true with no backing.
Needs to be somewhat randomized to simulate a real human, so that the supported site wasn't punished for ad pumping (which I am committing, they are not).
Adnauseam clicks everything to ruin the entire ecosystem.
Instead I looked for something like: hide-and-click ads on selected valuable sites, hide-or-block ads everywhere else.