“The site still enjoys around 45 million visits per month and Zippyshare.com is one of the top 1000 most-visited domains on the internet today.”
Zippyshare ran the same ad-funded free file hosting since 2006 and gave users two weeks to back up their files. Its operators blame ad blockers and energy costs. More ads drove more blocking, which forced more ads. A top-1000 domain with 45 million visits a month still goes broke when nobody sees the ads.