# So, when can we hope for the ads to go away?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [June 25, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086 "2020-06-25T23:45:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/1 "2020-06-25T23:45:50Z")
Do I give it a month? Another week? What?
I’m not prepared to accept any suggestion that they be permitted to remain.
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/2 "2020-06-26T00:03:10Z")
Get uBlock Origin add-on for your browser. It will make the overwhelming majority of ads everywhere go away (you can exclude sites from this or can add more filters)
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/3 "2020-06-26T00:11:47Z")
Ads? What ads?
Aka what Past Tense said.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/4 "2020-06-26T00:18:44Z")
Or use Brave browser. No ads.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/5 "2020-06-26T00:20:20Z")
I’m already running what I was told would be an effective adblocker. It’s called a paid membership. Is there an actual answer to the question I asked?
Just in case my question wasn’t clear, when will my paid membership actually exempt me from encountering ads, as \>ahem\< _advertised_?
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/6 "2020-06-26T00:22:10Z")
Do you really think they can tell you how many days it’ll be until they finish fixing everything?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/7 "2020-06-26T00:26:06Z")
A time frame will be fine.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/8 "2020-06-26T00:27:55Z")
Okay, Karen.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/9 "2020-06-26T00:29:56Z")
Sorry, that’s snarkier than I’d intended.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/10 "2020-06-26T00:31:38Z")
Don’t worry about it.
But for the record, Karen is my baby sister. I’m Michael. 😛
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/11 "2020-06-26T00:33:36Z")
For what it’s worth, I’m not seeing ads when I access the SDMB from my computer (via Chrome) even though I don’t have an adblocker on—just white spaces with the word ADVERTISEMENT above them. But I do see ads when I access the SDMB from a phone or tablet.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/12 "2020-06-26T00:40:20Z")
You’re not seeing the ad for Family Estate Counsel dot com?
Huh. I wonder how I can get in on that.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/13 "2020-06-26T00:45:16Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> For what it’s worth, I’m not seeing ads when I access the SDMB from my computer (via Chrome) even though I don’t have an adblocker on—just white spaces with the word ADVERTISEMENT above them. But I do see ads when I access the SDMB from a phone or tablet.
This. I don’t see ads on my computer (Firefox) and I’m a paid member. I do see ads when I access the board on my kindle.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/14 "2020-06-26T17:29:58Z")
I’m seeing an ad for VRBO at the bottom of this page right now.
Yeah, like I’m gonna be traveling anytime soon. 🙁
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/15 "2020-06-27T02:49:04Z")
uBlock Origin eliminated not just my SDMB ad troubles, but made everything else run a lot better. Tons better than my previous blocker.
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/16 "2020-06-27T19:26:47Z")
I’m not a paid member, and I haven’t seen a single ad yet on this site.
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/17 "2020-06-27T19:30:45Z")
Paid member, AdBlockPlus, Firefox, no ads and no squares for any ads. All I see is interface and content, clean as can be.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/18 "2020-06-27T19:35:56Z")
I’m paid up but If I turn off my adblockers, I see ads.
And they don’t know they’re ads. 😉
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/19 "2020-06-27T19:40:08Z")
No ads for me, but I run both Adblock and uBlock Origin.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-can-we-hope-for-the-ads-to-go-away/913086/20 "2020-07-02T23:06:55Z")
Member. Running Adblock. Started last night on my iPad.
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