> If you advert suggests you are about to go under, but in reality you are spending money left right and center on various other charities, with only vaguely related mission statements, then you are taking advantage of the god will of your donators, that is the problem here.

This, totally. That's the reason for me too.

They do good work but the way they ask really ticks me off. And it's been like this forever, when they still featured the sad-sam Jimmy Wales pic.

They do great work but I'll rather give to archive.org that also do amazing and important work, need it a lot more and don't cry about it so much.