How much? Who do I pay? To rid my life of these advertisements here?

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I use the mobile website sometimes and the ads pop off the edge of the screen where you can't reach the X to close it... And I haven't found an ad blocker that works properly on my phone
 
I use opera browser on my phone and have no issues with the ad blocker it comes with.
 
Lol. On my iPhone it pops up an ad between every link you follow. So if I click on a thread etc I have to go through an ad page first

It’s not terrible once you get used to it. I’d still rather have a completely free site.

I’m on an audio forum and they push the subscription to the site. But also on that site there are a lot more ads if you aren’t logged in. I’m not sure if being logged in here affects the ads. I’m just always logged in.
 
There’s a Tom Petty lyric that goes

“As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see
How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free”
 
Management must have calculated more profit by having fewer forum members willing to tolerate the aggressive pop ups than the profit from more members willing to deal with normal passive advertising.

Have you noticed a drop in traffic?
 
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ahhh its only 37 ads when you come to the site..LOL.. yet they make me log in and verify myself every 30 days because they say my email is compromised..LOL
 
ahhh its only 37 ads when you come to the site..LOL.. yet they make me log in and verify myself every 30 days because they say my email is compromised..LOL
Change the password to something more robust.
 
These pop up adds and banners are crazy. This is the 1st time i've seen them on my computer. How do i get rid of them?
 
I just opened again and the banners have gone away. Maybe my add blocker had a bug?
Anyway all back to normal now.
 
I get this pop up now
[Hearth.com] How much? Who do I pay? To rid my life of these advertisements here?

I presume that might resolve the issue after payment.
However, clicking on that, I run into a "Oops we ran into a problem" page...

Is it @webfish who might be able to help me with that?
 
And now that pop up is no longer available to me...
 
So, what is the yellow "hearth supporter" banner under the user name?
 
Following…I see it too, but can’t access it. Cruel joke.
 
So, what is the yellow "hearth supporter" banner under the user name?
You got it now. I presume this is the "pay to not see ads" thing. That popped up for me, didn't work, and now is not present anymore for me....
 
Upgrade now!

Except that option doesn't function.....
Likely working out a bug I presume.
If anybody gets it to work please share the details here. Thanks
 
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I haven't paid any money but do have the hearth supporter under my name.
Folks that registered here before 2011 are automatically included.

For the popup, check to see if the browser being used is blocking them. webfish may have some more insight on this.
 
Thanks
 
Can y’all go change my registration date to 12/31/2010?, I mean I lost my old account password …