Wow guys, so much negativity on faucets.
I too think there are a lot of scammers. I just want you to give me 2 cents (as a faucet owner). Firstly, I'm not in it for the money. At this time I invested about 50 eur into my faucet (hosting for 6 months, domain name for a year, satoshi to hand out). Web development has always been a hobby of mine. It would be nice to earn some pocket change eventually. If the money runs out before I break even, I'll just close the site and I'll try something else.
It's not easy earning some money as a faucet owner. I'm not even close to breaking even. My AdSense application was rejected. I keep wondering how other faucet owners do it. They beg users to click the ads (which NO advertising business allows). Talking about scamming.. I guess those faucet owners are scamming Google.
Bee-ads brings in little money. Anonymous ads was bringing in NO money. My Mellowads application was rejected. No idea why, I see loads of crummy sites with Mellowads. I'll never deal with Mellowads again.
At this moment I'm trying popunders. It's a bit of an annoying form of advertising, but I guess I'm trying everything.
To those who are convinced that making, running and maintaining a profitable faucet is an easy thing to do: Well, what stops you from starting one?
I'm open to all questions or suggestions. Please try to keep it civilised. There's already too much pain and anger in the world.