Although I've only been working for them for 1 month I have been using the site since the 1st week it started. When it was launched it was entirely funded by the adverts and briefly the dice game was 0% house edge. Within a couple of weeks the bots turned up to exploit it and the house edge was added to combat that. Since then it has always been a dice site and faucet rather than just a faucet. After Adsense went there was a period when advertising was both sold directly through the site and using other advert networks (Mellow Ads Etc.). Those ads didn't bring in much revenue and were either quite scammy (HYIP, cloud mining) and/or garish distracting ads that didn't give a good impression of the site.

Of course, the faucet is there to attract new customers to the dice game. The only thing that really distinguishes it from other gambling sites is that they only allow you to claim their faucet when your balance is zero and then you have to try and gamble it up to the minimum withdrawal amount. Whereas we allow you just to keep on claiming and never gamble at all if you want to. That works fine unless large numbers come along all using bots to maximise what they can get from the faucet. That takes a disproportionate amount of the faucet budget and means there is less for legitimate users. The part that probably isn't so widely understood is that the bots pay for captcha solving services, so if that is cheaper than what they can get from the faucet then there is a huge profit in running a large botnet. All the changes we make are to try and make things unprofitable for them. Unfortunately, that also makes it harder for legitimate users to profit from the faucet alone.

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I haven't heard anything from wetsuit as he's busy with personal matters at the moment. It was nice of you to self-identify as a bot abuser and I personally will be very pleased if your network of bot using friends have been banned.