Really bummed out about DeSantis ads on DU

[MySideOfTown]

I know ya gotta make a buck.

[Mr.Bill]

1. Look at it this way.

That's money that won't be spent on people he might convince to vote for him.

[Mister Ed]

2. Forgive me if you've already been asked...

...but have you considered a star membership? You need only pay what you choose to. The cost per year to be free of those ads can be extremely minimal.

[elleng]

3. Right, like $10.

[MySideOfTown]

38. Good Idea, thanks

Done

[Hekate]

4. You've been a member since January 2019. You know by now that a great many of us see no ads at all

Go buy a Star Membership — it’s beyond affordable.

The ads are thrown up by algorithms, and nobody in management has anything to do with their choice.

[Indykatie]

18. Sorry But I Roll My Eyes When Someone Complains About Ads Who Aren't Paid DU Members

[Earth-shine]

5. Would you rather the ads be shown somewhere where they might make a difference?

This is wasted republican ad money. Good!

As if it has not been said before, get a star membership and really be a part of DU.

[blogslug]

6. Google ads are auto-generated based on keywords

The Florida governor is discussed here often. That's why you see those ads. DU does not serve those ads intentionally.

[Kaleva]

9. Many of the ads I see on Facebook are for sheep fence

[Celerity]

11. ...

[Kaleva]

22. I'm paying the price now for looking up info on various sheep breeds

and on how to care for them

[panader0]

23. Sheep lie.

[Celerity]

24. Gute rams (Gotland sheep from here in Sweden)

[Sympthsical]

33. At least you don't see a guy pulling a gallon of milk out of his crotch

Seriously, it's every other ad for me.

I made the mistake of doing some jeans shopping while having FB open.

And now it's just crotch milk all of the time.

[Kaleva]

34. Lol!

[Better Days Ahoy]

7. I have Duck Duck Go as my browser on my phone -- no ads!

Easy to download. Ads go away immediately and the analytics programs cannot grab your data.
Kind of surprised that more DUers aren't using it.

[tavernier]

12. Probably because DUers know the importance

of donating a few bucks a year to an organization that they consider a vital news source and often, family. The lack of a star is considered by some to be a troll giveaway, since a MAGA member wouldn’t dream of giving funding to Democratic Underground.

[secondwind]

14. THIS!

[Better Days Ahoy]

15. Agree. Yet and so, Duck Duck Go keeps ads off my phone and prevents

Google and other analytics collectors from harvesting, selling and using my data -- that's the part that's important to me. And no disruptive ads -- ever -- while I'm on DU.

That's the point: Why let these bad players take your data and run crappy ads? Seems an unnecessarily high price to claim a stiff resolve.

[luv2fly]

20. Right there with ya

Been using DDG for ages and no ads. I love it, and I'm no troll despite what some may suggest due to the absence of a star.

[Kaleva]

8. Do you think they'll make you vote for him?

[Native]

10. 2 ways to look at this - either his campaign is inept, or he has so much money,

he can afford to rub it in our faces. Hard to know which because his ads are ridiculously bad (Top Gov & and his blasphemous 'on the 8th day' are good examples), and he is known to be a vengeful prick.

[secondwind]

13. Get Star membership, and never see an ad again.

[Better Days Ahoy]

16. I'll do that next. Duck Duck Go works nicely in the meantime.

Yeah

[Indykatie]

17. DU Members That Support the Site Via Membership Don't Have That Problem. Just Saying.

[Irish_Dem]

19. DU is helping the cause by siphoning off GOP advertising money.

It is a total waste of GOP resources spending advert money on a solid Dem voting block.

Every dollar the GOP spends here is a dollar not spent on an independent who might vote MAGA.

[Bucky]

27. Nah, how well targeted GOP ads are is a choice that the DeSantis campaign makes

Either (1) they have enough money that they don't feel they need to target the ads smartly or (2) whoever's buying their ads is being careless with how he spends the money.

[Irish_Dem]

28. My guess: US/Russian oligarchs are flooding DeSantis with unbelievable amounts of money.

They have so much money they can spend it foolishly.

Good point you are making.

[Bucky]

29. Why have dark money if you don't use it for dark purposes?

They didn't install a right wing Supreme Court for the jollies

[Irish_Dem]

30. They have spent well and with specific intent.

Take control of the US government.

The best sociopaths don't break the law, they make it.

[Demsrule86]

21. Well consider this....what a waste of ad money!

[Bucky]

26. Or consider this...

How targeted a politician's ads have to be is a measure of both how good they are at managing budgets and how much they need to manage their own budget..

This probably indicates (1) that Ron DeSantis is casting a wider net than he ought to be with his ad dollars and (2) that he has enough ad dollars that he can afford to cast a wider net.

[Demsrule86]

37. Only one issue with your analysis...he doesn't decide how or when the clips are used.

[Bucky]

25. It's the internet. Poorly targeted ads will happen.

Anyway you're supposed to stay informed about your opponents. That's how opposition works

[we can do it]

31. Get a star membership.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Glad I'm spared from seein that!!

[fishwax]

35. don't such ads usually cost more if they're clicked on? Click away.

The campaign is spending money that, from this website one would hope, won't be providing much return on their investment.

And if DUers click on the ad, so much the better, because that's money/clicks that they're not reaching their target audience with.

[LakeArenal]

36. Unless it's changed Star Membership as low as $1.

For a year.