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Cyrulis

Hey guys, let's tell chess.com to stop those annoying pop up ads being thrown at non paying (= less respect) chess.com customers. They are unreasonably interfering with overall website experience. On just about every new page load, pop up goes up and interferes with the game and just casual browsing.

Chess.com, yes you need to make money, regular ads are fine, occasional pop ups would be tolerable, but constant bombardment with pop up advertising is wrong. Stop it.

Please, don't start that broohaha that if you dont' like, go away or just pay up. I don't need lecturing about that. I believe, non paying players can be treated better.

cowboop

i totally agree they make enough money for certain from normal ads and paying people so they shouldnt bombard us  non paying people you know? and i might just go download ad blocker so they get payed less for the ads

thegreat8

What's worse....the ads are generally bra ads on my account. Why would i need that?

erik

is this happening to you on every page load? should just be 1 per day... 

which browser are you using?

thegreat8
erik wrote:

is this happening to you on every page load? should just be 1 per day... 

which browser are you using?


It was on my old account. I was using Explorer at the time. Yes, it was nearly every page....and took up nearly every ad slot.

Cyrulis
erik wrote:

is this happening to you on every page load? should just be 1 per day... 

which browser are you using?


 

Yes, every or extremely close to every page load. My browser is next to newest IE

Scottie1956

That's the main reason that I purchased a gold membership, to avoid seeing all of the annoying and distracting ads on this site.

Kingpatzer

if you're not paying a membership fee, you're not a customer, you're a free rider. If you don't like the site enough to pay, deal with it. Or agree that you like the content enough to support the site.

AndyClifton
Cyrulis wrote:

I don't need lecturing about that.


Oh well, looks like you got it anyway...lol

MyCowsCanFly

I'm not getting the bra ads. Is seeing bra ads a premium feature?

AndyClifton

If by "pop-up ads" you mean those ones that extrude themselves from the lower left corner, I too am getting way more than 1 per day (I've had 3 in the last several minutes).  And I use Google Chrome.

Liquidator_Brunt

There is software out there that deals with these sorts of annoyances.

ilikeflags

if you dont' like, go away or just pay up

(brooohahaha)

erik
AndyClifton wrote:

If by "pop-up ads" you mean those ones that extrude themselves from the lower left corner, I too am getting way more than 1 per day (I've had 3 in the last several minutes).  And I use Google Chrome.


you can disable the meebo chat bar (which shows those ads) in your privacy settings

fburton
AndyClifton wrote:

If by "pop-up ads" you mean those ones that extrude themselves from the lower left corner, I too am getting way more than 1 per day (I've had 3 in the last several minutes).  And I use Google Chrome.


I get a pop-up ad extruding itself upwards across the bottom of every single page in Safari.

Just tried Opera and it only pops up once... hmmm.

Cystem_Phailure
Cyrulis wrote:  I don't need lecturing about that. 

Yes you do, or you wouldn't have started this thread.

AndyClifton
ilikeflags wrote:

if you dont' like, go away or just pay up

(brooohahaha)


limey git

AndyClifton
erik wrote:
 

you can disable the meebo chat bar (which shows those ads) in your privacy settings


Oh yeah...thanks! Smile

RichColorado

Quit complaining so much about the ads popping up. Well since you don't think you should pay, there is a easy solution besides quiting this great site.

      That is doing what the astronauts do to fix anything that fails on their ships.

Take a roll of duct tape and just put tape over the area on your screen where the ads pop up.

                 What a great solution.   NO MORE ADS.

                        IMHO

AndyClifton

Yey!  Duct tape saves the world again!!!