Anyone else have ads all of a sudden?

[nolabear]

Yes, I’m a star member. I logged off and back in and they’re still there. If it’s just me I’ll go to admins. But man, if you do this on a mobile ads make it damn near unworkable!

[SoCalNative]

1. Yes

And also weirdness in my profile

[nolabear]

2. Wow. It takes forever for anything to load!

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. I did yesterday

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yep. Just had a crash, too...

error message showed a break between cloud and DU server.

It happened while I was posting. I re-started and checked. The post is there.

I was having ads in the lower left (normally) blank space. That time, the block below the post I was replying to had an ad there instead of the normal list of replies.

Looks ok now.

[MontanaMama]

5. Oddly. Yes...

I’ve had the formatting change on my screen and then a single and pops up. It isn’t consistent or predictable however.

[nolabear]

7. Sounds like technical difficulties. I asked the admins.

Hopefully it’ll straighten out soon.

[Wounded Bear]

11. So did I. Got a response from EarlG, too...

actually two of them. The first said for me to check my system, the second noted he had another complaint, probably yours.

[Delmette2.0]

6. I closed the window and opened it back as a favorite.

The ads went away.

[nolabear]

9. Tried it. No go. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Delmette2.0]

10. Bummer.

[farmbo]

8. Yep

EOM

[musette_sf]

12. yes, me too

[Ponietz]

13. Captchas throughout the day when I check in

Installed an IPad OS update this morning. Bummer.

[captain queeg]

14. Yeah just started for me a couple hours ago. Nt

[EarlG]

15. Hello -- we're aware of this

Star Members should NOT be seeing any ads at all, so this is a problem.

I'm not entirely sure, but this may be related to the issue from the other day. We are looking into it right now.

[nolabear]

22. Thanks EarlG! I'll patiently await resolution.

[Faux pas]

16. Yes

and not happy

[AllaN01Bear]

18. depends which browser i use. if i use seamonkey for mac os x,

i use adblock. adblock plus . adblock plus plus and adblock for youtube with some strong filters . im not a star member. on artic fox browser for mac os x , wich dosent have extensions , there are ads galore and they slow down the viewing.

[Aristus]

19. They come and go.

I'm assuming it has something to do with the site maintenance. I'm sure it will go away...

[captain queeg]

20. I switched from my phone to my computer and now its ok (safari on my phone)

[spanone]

21. I don't see any....

[EarlG]

23. Any further reports of this?

We have various tech supports trying to track this down... It's a bit tough to diagnose because it appears to be happening randomly to random users, although we have some ideas. I've experienced the occasional Cloudflare error page myself this afternoon/evening, but have not seen any ads showing up where they shouldn't be.

If anyone is still experiencing this problem of either seeing error pages or ads where they shouldn't be, please let me know.

[nolabear]

25. Still going on with me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[EarlG]

26. Bah, okay

We're doing the tech support dance right now so hopefully there will be a fix for this shortly. Hang in there, and my apologies. We'll keep you updated.

[nolabear]

28. No worries. You all are doing yeoman's work.

[blueinredohio]

24. No ads but I still can't rec a post. Also can't vote in a poll.

[EarlG]

27. I may have a fix for you

See this post:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1096&pid=5313

If you're on a desktop or laptop, open the files that I linked to in that post, and hold down your Shift key while you refresh the page in your browser. Do that for each of the four links, and hopefully your problem will be resolved.

(Don't worry, the files aren't harmful -- they're part of our software and your browser already accesses them regularly when you're using DU.)

[blueinredohio]

29. I'm on a kindle. Tried turning off and back on but that didn't work