How to simply stop all ads without paying!

If you use google chrome, u search for AdBlock, which is a free advertise blocking addon. You will be asked to pay only if you can, and since you probably can't then you don't have to pay anything. This is in response to the stupid ad placed on the left of the board that most of us are experiencing. I wish to tell chess.com that no longer do i have that ad on the left of the board but also no other ads on the whole website.

Well, i don't care if they don't care! I am helping people get rid of the stupid ads. This isn't against chess.com as much as to try to get a problem fixed!

The NoScript extension/add-on blocks a lot too.

well any of the popular ones.

Please stop all ads.

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You meant right, right?

harryz wrote:

Chess.com gets paid to have ads on their website. They dont care if you dont see them

Some ads are pay for view

                     Pay for view???   You mean Pornaghraphic Ads ??   Why didn't somebody tell me?   I'll be back, I'm gonna disable Ad-Block.

Yes, maybe all we have to do is ask nicely, and they'll do the right thing.

Sorry to take the opposing viewpoint here - but just what is it you all expect?  Do you think chess.com magically gets computer time for free to put up this web site? Do you think bugs that get noted in posts, and then fixed, magically fix themselves?  Do you think spam attacks in the message board just magically disappear?  I could go on and on.

They have provided you with a great website, and the opportunity to participate completely free of charge. To make this free service to you worth their while, they are posting advertisements that they can earn back some revenue to cover the costs of the FREE services they are providing to you. By finding ways not to allow them to recover these costs in accordance with their business model, you are effectively stealing that free service.  Why not be thankful they are not making it a paid only service, and welcome the opportunity to provide them back with some nominal advertising revenue to cover the costs of a free service you are taking advantage of?

Full disclosure - I am not associated with chess.com in any way and I am not a paying member.

You can't steal a free service.  It's free.  Neither I, nor anyone else, agreed to view ads in exchange for playing chess here.  If chess.com wants to find anohter way to make money (they already offer premium services), that's up to them, but nobody here has to agree to cooperate with their method.  If this method fails to generate revenue for them because people are not willingly viewing their ads, it is up to them to find a model that works.  In other words, it's THIER job to generate revenue, not ours to cooperate with an easy way they've found to do it.

Now, if I agreed to views ads to use the site and then blocked them, that would be different.  They would have the right to complain or take action.  As it is, they are offering a free service with no strings attached.  No one should feel guilty for taking advantage of that.  Feel free to watch ads, if you want.  I won't.  And if chess.com says I have to or leave, I'll just leave.  This is far from the best place to play chess on the internet anyway. 

                       Your right, you can't steal a free service, but your of the age in which you think everything should be provided to you for FREE

You can kid yourself that you are not stealing - but you are just kidding yourself.  Here's an analogy - if a retail packaged food store puts out free samples every afternoon at 5:00 PM and you stop by occasionally because you are intent on shopping there, eat some free samples, but purchase nothing - that is a normal part of the business model.  However, if you stop by every single afternoon at 5:00 PM and eat as much as you possibly can, and buy nothing, that is stealing.  While the proprieter is clearly opening themselves up to that possibility, you cannot blame the proprieter for having a business model that allows you to steal.  What you are doing is wrong.  Plain and simple.

Absolute nonsense.  There would simply be a limit on the amount of food you could take or how often, etc.  There is no such limitation here.

Am I stealing from lichess when I play there?

http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free

                     Why do you have a FREE web site for your blog ??

Adblock works with Firefox, and there is probably a Safari version too.

I am not sure about the weird ones like Opera etc., and if you use IE after careful consideration of browser possibilities, you are stealing other people's oxygen.

When you made your account, you probably did agree not to block the ads in any significant way. I don't know because I don't read those things.

The real point here is that if everybody blocks ads, then the free service will disappear. When I was a kid the local candy store offered free samples of their candies. When a couple bad apples ate all they could eat for free, then free samples ended for all of us. Do you really want to be that guy?

BTW - I am a platinum member... It's worth it.

There are ads on this site?  I haven't seen an ad on the internet in about 10 years.