why so many ads under postings?

[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.