ads on chess .com

You don't seem to be a premium member.  Any chance your premium ran out and you didn't notice it?

I am just a regular member, just started seeing advertisements. As I type I am watching an ad for Leggings, 2 pair for $24.🤔

Normally basic members see ads. Premium don't.

$24 will get you four if your friend doesn't mind the back pocket in the front.

Just trying to play chess.  This new ad is ridiculous.

It just happened to my account: Gold member, the description says "no ads" — but since today I see all this stupid stuff — and I cannot save my games anymore:

Why paid membership?
just use some adblock if you don't like ads...
simple solution..

I mean: This is hard to believe:

Use Brave browser simple as that

On my end, you're not a gold member

Frank je is not showing as a gold member for me either.

Where and what? If it's anywhere than the main homepage and not related to the site, you should report it.

I've never seen an add in this app

It looks like my Gold account has not been renewed automatically. I am a member since October 2014 and from what I remember I updated my account from Basic to Gold in January 2015.

Since then my Gold account has been renewed automatically — until this year.

So I found the reason why I see these annoying ads. What I don't know is the reason why my account has not been renewed — just like it has been over the last six years.

Side remark 1
What a sick world where companies place stupid ads on a website to make people pay in order to not showing these ads anymore. Is this what humans think is right: Providing stupid content alongside with something valuable to force people to pay money?

Side remark 2
I was confused and angry whgen I saw the changes in my account yesterday. I could not explain the reason and was not amused.  Over all of this I went to bed and lost two games on time.

Side remark 3
All this makes me think that I probably don't want to be part of chess.com anymore. Besides all the fun I had I think that it is time to take consequences. Do I really want to be part of such a sick business model as described in Side remark 1?

Cheers, Frank

I wrote the above comment a few minutes ago — still pondering if I should really leave chess.com or not. After clicking on the Post button to put my comment online a new ad was shown. After that my decision was made.

How can a company that is supposed to bring people together over a wonderful game advertise World War 3 (and yes: I am aware that they advertise a computer game)? In a time where most of us are afraid that we see war in Ukraine — which will be a desaster for many people living there without doubt — and that could turn out to become a world war!

This is just disgusting! Does making money justify everything, chess.com?

I have been a loyal supporter — not only moneywise — of chess.com. I defended this company in many discussions. I tried to contribute to the community by comments and blog articles.

I will stop my support — knowing that 99.9 % of all members do not care about this.

Cheers, Frank

https://support.chess.com/article/346-contact-us

Please report them 

So you don't think that being flooded by stupid content is a good thing? So you don't care that chess.com places ads for WW3?

No clever question, man: This is not charity. Do we really have to discuss this? I don't think so.

Chess.com has millions of users — many of them pay for extra features. The company already must make millions. I would happily pay money for an educated platform that supported human values. What I found out now is that I supported a company that places ads for WW3. How sick is that?

Just making money does not justify everything. At least not in an educated world with values that go beyond money.