Love it! NOT! Now the ads are showing up in between the posts? Lawd!

[Kajun Gal]

Maybe it's cause I'm on my kindle? Used to be just top of screen and bottom.

[uppityperson]

1. Buy a star and ads go away. You can give lots or a little

[bitterross]

3. That was going to be my suggestion too.

Best $10 I've spent all year.

[Kajun Gal]

5. It's happening on other sites, too. Must be the kindle. Might buy a star tho...

one day.

[uppityperson]

13. I've a fire and am annoyed at ads on other sites. I'm new to Fire, not sure if there are ad blockers

Off to check

[madaboutharry]

2. if you become a Star member, you won't see any ads.

If I recall correctly, you decide the amount of the donation. If all you have is $5 I think that is fine and you get rid of the ads for a year.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Yea du is an ad-fest or an adapalooza now

[Kajun Gal]

18. Exactly! Something changed in their upgrade recently.

[Blue_true]

6. A star membership does not cost much.

Something like $5 per month. Pretty reasonable given that it helps meet the costs of running the site.

[tblue37]

9. Heck--even $5 or $10 per *year* gets a star and an ad-free eperience. nt

[Blue_true]

12. I didn't know that.

I just pay in periodically and I am happy with the amounts.

[tblue37]

14. A lot of people are on very limited incomes. If they think they have to pay a certain

amount each month, they won't buy a star. That hurts both them and DU. But if everyone--or nearly everyone--who is not contributing at all because of being in tight financial circumstances realizes they can buy a star for a few bucks, maybe many of them would do so.

[Blue_true]

15. Good points. nt

[obamanut2012]

29. $1 will do it

[bearsfootball516]

11. It's as much as you want, I think.

You could give 50 cents if you wanted, anything works.

[samnsara]

34. for a year i think...

….I paid 10$ last year and have it auto renewed once a yr..

[calguy]

7. If you enjoy DU you owe it to DU to contribute to DU

Websites don't for free. You pay one way or another. A small donation or pay by ads in your face.

[Kaleva]

8. I should be getting my star back this week. DU is my go to place for most everything.

Humor, news, politics, various hobbies and so on.

[oberliner]

28. Similarly, folks should not try to get around paywalls at sites like the NY Times

[obamanut2012]

30. The Admins make a lot of money off DU, for very little work

No one owes them anything.

[Tipperary]

10. Meh, it really does not bother me.

Ads are in the newspapers I read, ads are on tv. Easy to tune out.

[Cha]

16. The ads bother the hell outta me..

It's so worth it to be a star member.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. As several people have already pointed out, a star membership

is incredibly cheap. I pay five dollars a year, and it's well worth it.

[Roland99]

19. I get logged out ever so often on phone and kindle

[Blecht]

20. Pay some money or use Adblock

But fucking stop complaining.

[Kajun Gal]

22. Wow! Sounds like you're bribing me! Crazy!!!!! I am for a FREE internet! Are you?

[Blecht]

23. I don't think you know what the word "bribe" means

It is pretty simple -- if you don't like the ads you have three choices:
1. Don't visit the site
2. Use some kind of ad blocker -- I use Adblock Plus
3. Pay some money -- you have a choice as to how much -- I find the site valuable enough to support, but if you don't like that there are still options 1 and 2 available to you.

[Kajun Gal]

37. Why, thank you so much!

[Codeine]

31. Free internet is impossible.

Someone has to pay for the storage, the bandwidth, and the servers.

[PJMcK]

36. Why should the internet be free?

Do you work for free? I certainly don't.

DemocraticUnderground.com provides a service. They don't do it for free. Give them a few bucks for their service or read the ads.

Stop complaining. Since you're here, you're obviously more of an adult.

[912gdm]

27. thats not fair.

I donated to the site, and I also have a good adblocker on my browser even though Mac is pretty good.

Lotsa people in my parents generation <mine included> dont understand that like casual internet users like us.


And they are the ones that get prayed on, spending 19.95 to check their computer and 20.00 to optimize this, and another 15.00 to secure that.

Like us, they see something that is annoying, like an ad, and will go down the rabbit hole spending money and giving their credit card number away to get rid of that annoyence. They don't know they are scammed until its too late.



As annoying as it is, I trained my parents to only allow me to make changes to their laptops and tablets with security programs and whatnot. I started that after dad told me 'Microsoft' called him because of a security breach and he needed extra security with is credit card number.


tl:dr. people are scamming older folk who arnt as comfortable with this technology.

[GulfCoast66]

21. Don't complain about a problem with an easy solution.

If my shoe comes untied I don’t complain...I tie it.

[Raine]

24. I have a Samsung tablet, I see them too

but I don't mind sometimes I've found them useful and something I'm interested in.

[eShirl]

25. just ignore them

(the ads)

[malaise]

26. Which reminds me

It's time to send my annual fees

[Ezior]

32. I just scroll over those ads

The people who run this site deserve all that ad money.

I actually prefer the new ads over the previous "secretly change external link targets to some strange forwarder page that makes it impossible to see the full URL before clicking the link" ad technique on mobile. I can simply scroll over the new ads.

Sometimes I see ads for German christian fundamentalists and click them. Then fundamentalists have to pay ad money to DU.

[samnsara]

33. donate any $ to DU and the ads go away

[PJMcK]

35. Buy a star

With over 1,500 posts, you obviously like it here!