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littlemissmartypants

(32,806 posts)
2. You can pay a dollar with PayPal or a debit/credit card. Get a star and
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:43 PM
Sep 2022

No more ads for an entire year. Easy peasy. ❤️

ETA Link to instructions...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=star

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
3. Are you referring to ads on DU? If so, just buy a membership star...
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:44 PM
Sep 2022

Go to the My Account tab on your upper screen, then go to the Star Membership tab and take it from there.

Poof — no more visible ads unless you are logged off.

GusBob

(8,206 posts)
8. Normally I don't complain about such things
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:52 PM
Sep 2022

Since I am unable to donate

But yeah that ad is fucking gross

 

Goodheart

(5,760 posts)
9. I don't mind ads, but that one is undignified. It sullies this place.
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 10:53 PM
Sep 2022

And that's a shame.

 

EarnestPutz

(2,843 posts)
12. Not two minutes before seeing your post about that ugly eyeball ad it had popped up on my....
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 12:30 AM
Sep 2022

.....screen. I wasn't logged into DU at the time and quickly did so. These shithead advertisers have no shame.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
13. It's all done by algorithms, iiuc. If you ever discussed a rare disease, or toenail fungus, ...
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 12:31 AM
Sep 2022

…or building a patio deck, they’ll find you. Why can’t they find us with kittens and puppies instead?

Raine

(31,146 posts)
11. I get that horrible ad on other sites
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 12:29 AM
Sep 2022

it's so horribly disgusting that I avoid the site (it's not a political site but a support group site) was a regular one I liked.

 

vercetti2021

(10,481 posts)
14. Its trypophobia triggering
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 12:42 AM
Sep 2022

Seriously sometimes I'm logged out on my tablet and I see it. It's so fake and obvious. But its meant to trigger those with trypophobia

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
16. I know the one you mean
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:22 AM
Sep 2022

It is horrible, if you read logged in as a star member you maybe won’t see it. I wasn’t sure what it was at first and then I realized it’s an eye. I have that phobia but only from specific things.

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