I like this web site but i don't like ads. So I pay for a premium membership. It's as simple as that. I'm just sorry that I'm also paying for other people's free rides. The free generation is the mean generation.
If you were buying a membership just to prevent ads, why did you buy the most expensive one? Surly you must be taking advantage of other benefits as well.
Sure, I want it all. And I think it's worth the money.
I like this web site but i don't like ads. So I pay for a premium membership. It's as simple as that. I'm just sorry that I'm also paying for other people's free rides. The free generation is the mean generation.
If you were buying a membership just to prevent ads, why did you buy the most expensive one? Surly you must be taking advantage of other benefits as well.
Sure, I want it all. And I think it's worth the money.
I agree. Even the cheapest membership has access to lots of great stuff.
I paid for a membership for the Tactics Trainer, Chess Mentor and Video lessons. Well worth the money to me. Had nothing to do with the ads. I never thought them to be all that intrusive. But if that bothered me and forced me to buy a package, 29 dollars seems a small price to pay to get rid of them. And you get the added benefits of a Gold Membership.... Seems pretty reasonable. Guess it's just easier for some to piss and moan about how they are so put upon for having to support a site they frequent.
I paid for a membership for the Tactics Trainer, Chess Mentor and Video lessons. Well worth the money to me. Had nothing to do with the ads. I never thought them to be all that intrusive. But if that bothered me and forced me to buy a package, 29 dollars seems a small price to pay to get rid of them. And you get the added benefits of a Gold Membership.... Seems pretty reasonable. Guess it's just easier for some to piss and moan about how they are so put upon for having to support a site they frequent.
+1
I wonder if the OP watches television. Every 5 minutes, an ad from a drug company, or buy a car. When TV was balck & white, there were 3 commercials in 1 hr. One at the beginning, one at the end, and one in the middle. PERIOD....
You are correct. It is your bandwidth and you are not forced to use it to see ads. So go play on one of the plethora of sites that are free to use and that also have no ads. There are lots of sites that want to lose money every single day just to suit you. They enjoy throwing all their money into a site so people like you don't have to see any ads or pay for the service. THIS site however, attempts to recoup the cost of doing business by running ads and selling memberships. If you're to damned CHEAP you can't pay 29 dollars to have the ads removed and you can't stand seeing them then go elsewhere. No one forces you to play here. Using THEIR bandwidth.
So pay the 29 dollars for a membership. Problem solved.
No more ads. No more lag. No more problem.
Imagine there's no adverts
It's easy if you try
Adblock protects me
Cause I'm a real cheap guy
Imagine all the people
Playing chess for free...
You may say I'm a dead beat
But I'm not the only one
I hope one day you'll use adblock
And chess.com will be gone.
(...) If a website has static, unobnoxious, relevant ads hosted on their own domain, I certainly have no problem with that.
(...)I wonder how you would block ads hosted on the website's domain, btw.
So pay the 29 dollars for a membership. Problem solved.
No more ads. No more lag. No more problem.
Sounds like extortion to me.
Oh my God! You're right! Chess.com is telling you that they won't give you their best product until you pay for it! That's extortion, alright.
So pay the 29 dollars for a membership. Problem solved.
No more ads. No more lag. No more problem.
Sounds like extortion to me.
Extortion? Are chess.com going to kill your children if you don't pay? I couldn't find any information about that in the user agreement.
So pay the 29 dollars for a membership. Problem solved.
No more ads. No more lag. No more problem.
Sounds like extortion to me.
No one is forcing you to play here. You can and SHOULD go elsewhere where you would be happier. But of course you'll just continue to leach off others here while bitching about it. It's your nature. You believe Chess.com OWES you an ad free ride. *snicker*
There is always the power button.
You believe Chess.com OWES you an ad free ride.
Strawman. The internet owes me nothing but, since I have the technical ability to take such free rides, I need some reason to not take them.
Let's put it another way. Imagine chess.com always places the ads at the same place on the screen, and I glued some paper on those places of my monitor so that I never see the ads. Do you consider this "ad-blocking" morally reprehensible? What about just ignoring the ads?
come on guys this is what the chess community looks like all you have to do is tell them its no way thats scum just try to be more polite
The funny thing is my school has blocked ads and stuff so it says remove ads but it doesn't have ads, even if I played on my pc I have an adblocker that I would use on here, I use my adblocker everywhere but on youtube.com since you can be banned there.
If they want to make the game paid then that's their thing, I am going to use adblocker if I have to bc I don't want ads not for my age.
So pay the 29 dollars for a membership. Problem solved.
No more ads. No more lag. No more problem.
Not every kid gets permission from their parent to get 29 dollars to waste on this website, I will go to coolmathgames and play chess there if I have to.
"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?"
Big thumbs up!!
"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. "
Big thumbs down.
It's not a "free" service. It's a service granted to those who register in return for either viewing ads or paying for an upgrade. By blocking the ads you are breaking your side of the agreement.
Whether it matters practically or not really depends on how Chess.com collects revenue (by merely presenting the ads on the site or by click-through count). If they receive the revenue merely for showing the ads, they probably don't care if you block them - but that definitely doesn't make it okay to do so.
In fact, I'm clicking through to a "Shocking French Video" right now!!
-Mark R.
If the ban people then people will stop, that's why I don't use adblocker on youtuber, I will get banned.
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.
I read the ToS and could not find such terms. Maybe they have changed though.
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?
So... You can have a free lunch, but only if you don't eat it? Sounds like a weird definition of "free" to me. Besides, the analogy is irrelevant because it takes one single big eater to bankrupt the candy shop but none wants to register millions of accounts and waste bandwidth.
Answers in red.
"You agree that the service may include advertisements" is saying nothing about ad blockers. I agree that tap water may include bacteria but it doesn't mean I cannot boil them to death.