Ads Don't Belong on Chess.com

seriously annoying.
no, im not paying for a premium account. i feel like 98% of other players would agree.

my first time on chess.com where an ad popped up after i made *one* move, i quit chess.com and went straight to lichess.

you get ads I don´t have that problem

What do people expect? With tens of millions of active users, how are they suppose to pay for the server costs alone? You can't get something for nothing. Lichess is free and nonprofit, but it's also a fraction of a fraction of the size.

So either give them some money or use the free alternative and stop complaining about it.

Ads fund chess.com, and it needs it. The subscription offers money to pay for ads removed. They are so big they can't have it free and ad-free. A smaller site would mean less users, so less fees and fewer ads needed to cover the fees.

Chess.com has been consistently expanding for more than a decade now… it made and makes a ridiculous amount of money (pure profit) without the adds … just based on its premium subscription model which you were convinced to buy because chess.com was a free platform that you got to know PRIMARILY because it was painlessly free. They’ve become a bigger name in the world of chess than FIDE…. Chess Influencers shower them with praise for their role in “popularizing chess, and serving its community worldwide”, although I’m sure they’re paying them behind the scenes for their endorsement. And why not, I always thought; they’re a good business who cares about creating a community out of chess geeks. I am certain that more people know about chess.com today than there are people who know FIDE exists. 

To ruin your community’s experience and sell your people for ads, is yet another demonstration of the fact that the businesses we know and love, like chess.com, are ultimately money making machines that are inherently greedy. They’d rather wield their popularity’s influence and the fact that all the friends you like to play with are on the platform to squeeze you out of money. They are milking the game, their users, and their reputation when they, in fact, don’t need to - because they were making A LOT of money before the adds. They’d like to make more of course. To tell me that I must pay to enjoy chess is ludicrous. The alternatives are many, and chess is a known and easy product to replicate …. It’s not like they’re running YouTube on their servers. Congratulations on reaching the beginning of the end.

I’ll never use chess.com again even if they reverse course. I might play with friends every now and then but that’s it.

while I was willing to pay them at some point in the future (I pay too much for digital services everywhere) because I genuinely believed (past tense) that their business was an added value to society, I’m certainly not willing now. To Lichess we go… might even code up my own platform…

Play on your laptop and use adblockers. Simple solution.

Interesting, I don't have premium and still no ads

What bothers me is the message "Ads help us grow the game of chess" but this app was doing EVERYTHING perfectly already. The only thing that's "growing" is some rich jerk's bank account now.

@aggchess2020 ima call you egg.

The more people play, the more people post in forums, it all gets stored as data in a server. With maybe 1000 posts daily (daily chess puzzle) and more randomly, cc pays for a LOT of server storage. Many people play a game and it gets stored, then they quit leaving an account forever on the server. A few people pay for premium (and they take up storage after it dies) so some costs are beat down but much of it is from ads.

And they spend a lot to keep computing power, for game analysis/review. Same concept in that it costs money.

Let's just say nobody makes much profit

Nick where did you find that? Probably is about profit then. I don't know why much past "it makes a whole lot of money" then. Every ad making a cent or two adds up to a crazy amount daily. I won't check but it is way more than what a membership costs, so ads make more money than memberships.