# Why am I seeing ads with my paid membership? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 17, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807 "2020-11-17T15:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/1 "2020-11-17T15:51:14Z")
I’m a Charter Member, and I’m pretty sure my paid subscription is good for at least another five or six months; yet I’m seeing ads as I scroll through threads. Why is that? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/2 "2020-11-17T15:52:45Z")
The subscription system didn’t port over. And there’s no admin to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/3 "2020-11-17T15:52:56Z")
I have to turn off my ad-blockers to get inline youtube videos to work, when they’re off, I get ads as well. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/4 "2020-11-17T15:54:38Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I have to turn off my ad-blockers Hm. I’m in the office today, using a PC. I use Adblock Plus on my Mac at home, and I haven’t noticed ads. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/5 "2020-11-17T15:56:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Hm. I’m in the office today, using a PC. I use Adblock Plus on my Mac at home, and I haven’t noticed ads. I’m running uBlock Origin and a pi-hole. If I shut off uBO so inline videos work, I get banner ads, about half of which get past the pi-hole, the other half just leave big empty spaces where the ads should be. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/6 "2020-11-17T16:13:09Z")
I’m not seeing actual ads, but I am seeing blanks with the word ADVERTISEMENT. I’m using Chrome on Windows 10 (most often), with ad-blockers turned off for the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/7 "2020-11-17T16:13:45Z")
Running Windows adblocker on Edge and Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/8 "2020-11-17T21:17:18Z")
I have Win10, Chrome, and AdBlock Plus. I see zero ads but all YouTubes preview & display just fine. As do all other Discourse “one box” things. I’ve been impressed with how side-effect free ABP has been on this site. So anyone unhappy with their config might try this one. it seems to be a winner. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-ads-with-my-paid-membership/925807/9 "2020-11-18T02:17:18Z")
Ditto here, except I don’t have ad blockers at all. No ads, just the blank ADVERTISEMENT.