REMOVE THESE ADDS!!

These new adds are annoying as hell. Why come popup in front of the screen to make me click you away!?? Don't you think I can see you blinking there in the corner as you are??

It's just moronic!

And morover: I CANT SCROLL THE PAGE ANYMORE since these adds where installed. If I refresh the page about 10 times, and i start scrolling before the add loads [-> the scrollbar IS there in the beginning], then sometimes it stays there.

SO, fix it !!! What is this? A chess-site or a marketplace?!  

Both, the site does not run for free.

I thought it ran on green energy and unicorn farts

So if you don't want to see the ads, then pony up some cash and you won't see 'em. This site is not a non profit, it has to get cash from somewhere. At least Eric gives us a choice whether to see them or not.

hey, stop whining. All chess sites need to run on something. go to any other chess site and i bet you will at least see one ad somewhere. We pay to play well, and remove ads from our screens. chess.com not only makes money from subscribers, but from the companies that pay for the ads, too.

I have no problem with chess.com making adds.  Its part and parcel of this world. At least now is better than several months ago where it was damn slow.  Luckily chess.com fixed it.  BTW you only get more subscribers if they are impressed by you.  The 1st impression is very important.  If the 1st impression is bad, then why would someone fork out his money?  Would you?  That's how life is.  I have no complaints.  Just happy of what this site provides. :)

Do chess sites grow on trees where you are from? Do they get nationalized and distributed equally to all citizens? Well.... welcome to earth where they get created by individual humans who have a right to what they create. The creator of this site has a family to feed just like other people. Either create your own site, pay for this one, or stop whining!

Still, ads could be less annoying e.g. static pictures--google ads, and still generate revenue. 

I think chess.com should run adds, it's free money.

I think they should even run them for paying members, because I like supporting the site, and I don't think that's unreasonable.

But the flashing or pop-up or my personal favorite "congratulations! You won!" audio spam... get rid of them. They're intrusive and distasteful.

Get a decent browser. I have Adblock plus, so I don't see any ads, but even when i deactivated it, Mozilla still blocked the pop-up window.

I quite like the ads, some are pretty good.

I agree with both sides of this discussion - sure chess.com needs cash, but the ad mechanisms they use are terrible - popup windows... seriously!? (Like early 2000s stuff). I don't think annoying your users into upgrading is a good marketing approach :)

Moreover, just advertise chess.com itself more - i.e. the benefits of being premium - then at least you make money directly (and not through some referral) and you know the ad isn't going to be either hideously implemented (page blocking, popup etc) or have questionable content.

I don't even look at the ads, so now the popup windows are only an annoyance. 

there might be a bit more behind it than just old annoying pop ups where you dont look at. i assume marketing and contracts play a big roll and statistically it will be checked whether it is successful or not   

firefox adblock.

just pay for a membership :)

no one passed spelling class? one is Dutch, one is Malay and one is American, come on man give them a break foreigners don´t speak English perfect, hows your Creole or Chinese?

Adds is one thing, but to popup in your face to click it away is just stupid.

What's next, click it 2 times away? Then 10 times?!

But the point really was: The scrollbar in IE doesn't work anymore after some adds load. But I guess no-one else has this problem then...