how would DUers go about stopping this site from allowing ULTRA-intrusive ads

[cloudythescribbler]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by SYFROYH (a host of the General Discussion forum).

If DU needs money and runs some ads, OK. But lately, both on DU and generally, I have seen an exponentially rising number and intrusiveness of ads -- eg "you have been selected for a free gift" with ONLY an accept button and impossible to turn off without disconnecting DU altogether and signing back in. This kind of ad that can't and won't be readily erased is becoming increasingly common. Both DU as a site should ban them and they should be banned in law, and if there is some protestation about free speech (somehow with all the crap that's tolerated, my own speech never seems to be protected) then it should at least be heavily taxed.
Indeed any ad that delays or blocks even part of your view, requiring an extra click to get rid of it, should be heavily taxed -- a good way to both raise revenue and to reduce crap on the internet

I AM FED UP WITH THIS

[Nye Bevan]

1. Donate to DU. Then you have the option to turn off ads (nt)

[NYC_SKP]

4. Wait, it's an option? You mean as a Star member I can turn them ON!!!!

Oh, wow, the ads are so funny!

Now, how do I do this?

[Nye Bevan]

7. I guess I was wrong.

I went to My Account and could not see a way to turn on the ads.

I guess that is a feature that would probably not be in great demand.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Crap, was hoping to see some Blue Dildo and Ted Cruz ads.

Not together, of course.

That would be very frightening.

[Beaverhausen]

21. If you aren't logged in you can see the ads

So, just sign out.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Pay $5, get a star that keeps the nasty ads away. nt

[Blue_Adept]

3. Well...

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[NightWatcher]

5. Get Firefox and use Adblock Plus if you don't want to donate $1

It's a very easy fix.

[whatthehey]

8. Adblock with Chrome here and no ads beyond the static small banner and left hand margin

[HappyMe]

6. You could get a star as others have suggested.

I don't have a star and don't experience anything like you have described.

[pinboy3niner]

9. It sounds like malware on the user end, not DU. nt

[SidDithers]

12. That was my thought too...

As far as I know, DU's ads are limited to Google Ads.

Sounds like a browser hijacker on the client.

Sid

[pinboy3niner]

17. Remember when someone posted to complain about all the sex ads he was getting?

And it turned out he was being served those ads because of his history of visiting porn sites?

[HappyMe]

14. That's what I was thinking.

I stay on top of running malware, spyware and virus scans. A while back there was a nasty malware thing that kept trying to get in.

[hunter]

16. I agree, it sounds like malware.

When I look at DU without being logged in the ads are not nearly so intrusive as the ads on sites like huffingtonpost, although I wouldn't know for certain, because I don't have Adobe Flash on my computer, I block pop-ups, and I've disallowed animation in ads. But I don't use ad blockers at all. The owners of sites I don't pay for deserve the ad revenue. If a site's ads make me crazy, I don't go there.

To the original poster, I suggest:

http://www.malwarebytes.org

and DU's very own Computer Help and Support Group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

[pinboy3niner]

18. Malwarebytes is good advice

It's a great tool for detecting and solving this kind of problem.

[PoliticAverse]

10. I haven't seen any ads like that here on DU. I'm just using Firefox with "Block pop-up windows"

enabled. Did you get some type of adware/malware installed on your machine?

[SidDithers]

13. Post your question in Ask the Administrators...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1259

Sid

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Don't Pay... Then click on the links and let the advertiser sites pay $1 to DU.

I used to do that with the NRA and others...

if they want to advertise on my browser, I'll oblige their act and click on their link.

===

It takes 10 seconds and DU gets $1 or more in return. (Remember, only one linkage per day per site will be paid.)

I finally joined during their Valentine's Day Membership Drive.

[bravenak]

19. Malware.

[pinboy3niner]

20. Nice sigpic!

[bravenak]

22. Thank you!!!

Cut my hair. Wanted to make sure EVERYBODY knows about it.

[pinboy3niner]

23. Looking good!

You and yuiyoshida have the best sigpics. Some of us don't dare do that for fear of breaking the internets.

[aikoaiko]

24. Locking

As a general rule we don't allow threads that criticize or complain about DU operations (such as ads) in General Discussion. We call that disruptive meta discussion.

From the pinned thread in GD:

DISRUPTIVE META-DISCUSSION
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