why so many ads under postings?

[macwriter]

I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this, so I apologize in advance if I've made a mistake.

I understand the need for links and images that promote other sites as a marketing and possible revenue source, but there seems to be a whole lot more on DU now than I can ever remember before. The scroll to get to comments is unbelievably long. Am I wrong? Has anyone else noticed this?

[Celerity]

1. become a star member and they go pooooooooooooooof

[macwriter]

4. THANK YOU!

That makes perfect sense!

[Celerity]

14. yw! cheers

[demmiblue]

2. I noticed that last night on my iPad (I wasn't logged in).

I couldn't even get to the comments. After I logged in, it was fine.

It is probably just a glitch.

[macwriter]

10. good to know

thought I was losing my mind.

[demmiblue]

13. Lol... it was kind of maddening.

Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll... nada.

[BigmanPigman]

17. That exact thing happened to me too.

Also, the spell check only works 50% of the time since that happened to me. What's up!? And I am a star member.

[Merlot]

21. I also noticed no comments when on my ipad, but on MacBook Air it's fine.

[MineralMan]

3. Donate to Democratic Underground and Become a Star Member

You'll see no ads at all. It's expensive to run a public website. The bills must be paid.

[macwriter]

6. Got it.

It makes perfect sense and I would come back to DU with or without the long scroll, but now I can enjoy the site more and contribute to its financial health. Thanks!

[oasis]

5. Because "The best things in life aren't free". nt

[macwriter]

8. too true

I should have figured this out on my own. Lesson: Never post before morning coffee,

[oasis]

12. Welcome aboard!

[WhiteTara]

22. You're golden

Welcome to DU

[Dream Girl]

7. Donate...doesn't have to much. I give a dollar a month.

[macwriter]

9. will do

thanks

[keithbvadu2]

25. If by credit card, it can be more generous to give once than 12 times.

How Bernie's Small Donors Are Making Credit Card Companies Rich (or any politician)

($12 once is more efficient than $1 twelve times)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/25/small-dollar-online-donors-politics-credit-card-processing-072949

Low-dollar, repeat contributions are a great talking point for campaigns. They’ve also resulted in a massive financial windfall for credit card processors.

[Dream Girl]

26. Good point, I'd forgot about interchange. I use PayPal. I wonder if that makes a difference

[keithbvadu2]

28. Yeah. It depends on how PP is set up for it.

Using the figures in the article. it would be more generous/efficient to give $9 once than $1 twelve times.

[PTWB]

11. You should be running a ad-blocker for your browser

[tanyev]

15. That is new.

I often peruse DU without logging in and see some ads, but this is a level I haven't seen before. Hope it's temporary.

[macwriter]

16. YEA! I'm a star!

DU Star Member, that is. Thanks to all

[progree]

18. It's a glitch - the last time this happened, around Super Tuesday, Skinner was mad as

heck and got the problem fixed with the agency that does the ads placement thing on DU pages.

This isn't deliberate. He is well aware that people go through a phase (some longer than others) of being an occasional viewer before going all in to membership. The first impulse of a newcomer to the site and finding it unusable is to go elsewhere, like to JPR (shudder) or Hide5 (the horror, the horror), or tens of thousands of other possibilities. Very few newcomers are going to throw money at it and hope that makes things better. And we benefit from having visitors read progressive viewpoints.

I am a long-time star member, but I just accessed DU via another browser where I'm not logged in, and yes it is essentially unusable.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Reminds me of Raw Story a few years back....

when they put so many auto-play videos on their home page, my computer couldn't even load it. After several years as one of my favorites, I quit them altogether. They never really responded to my emails on the subject.

Thanks goodness, that was around the time I finally found DU........

[LAS14]

19. I logged out to see what you're talking about. I saw a page worth...

... of ads on the home page, before the list of most active threads, but nothing within threads in General Discussion. Can you be more specific for those of us who normally log in (no ads)?

Oh! I was reminded by a post up-thread about ad blockers. I recently installed one. So I'm no good as a resource. Looks like you got some good answers.

[not_the_one]

23. For someone wanting to just read, it made DU absolutely useless. FIX the glitch.

You shouldn't have to log in to browse. How do you think we get new members? A great way to alienate someone who stumbled onto DU. We would lose them within 2 to 3 clicks.

You shouldn't have to scroll through hundreds of ads to get to the substance of a thread. It makes DU seem like a scam site. It did go away after I logged in.

I don't mind the ads, except I DO mind the ones that pop up in front of the thread. I do occasionally click on an ad, and may even buy something.

I didn't mind the fund drives. I would rather have DU funded that way, over click bait, or posters sporting the gold star indicating teacher's pet.

Ironic. The fund drives were eliminated so we could have ad driven financial support. Now there are so many ads that there are an actual distraction. BUT, I can avoid the ads all together if I become a Gold Star Member (in essence another name for a "fund drive&quot . So fund drives were eliminated so we could have a ton of ads, so a "fund drive" could be instituted to avoid the ads.

Smart. (NOT)

Gold Star. Meh.

[Dream Girl]

27. If you're a regular user, you should support it. Doesn't have to be a lot. $5 a year works plus

You are doing your part. You pay either way - your eyes all’s your your dollars. Frankly it well worth it.

[customerserviceguy]

24. I've noticed it, too

Especially when I view DU on my smartphone.

But, I don't salivate at every small shiny object, so I just push past them.

[Luciferous]

29. Yep, I've noticed there seem to be a lot more recently.