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littlemissmartypants

(22,632 posts)
2. You can pay a dollar with PayPal or a debit/credit card. Get a star and
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:43 PM
Sep 2022

No more ads for an entire year. Easy peasy. ❤️

ETA Link to instructions...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=star

Hekate

(90,645 posts)
3. Are you referring to ads on DU? If so, just buy a membership star...
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:44 PM
Sep 2022

Go to the My Account tab on your upper screen, then go to the Star Membership tab and take it from there.

Poof — no more visible ads unless you are logged off.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
8. Normally I don't complain about such things
Tue Sep 6, 2022, 11:52 PM
Sep 2022

Since I am unable to donate

But yeah that ad is fucking gross

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)
12. Not two minutes before seeing your post about that ugly eyeball ad it had popped up on my....
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:30 AM
Sep 2022

.....screen. I wasn't logged into DU at the time and quickly did so. These shithead advertisers have no shame.

Hekate

(90,645 posts)
13. It's all done by algorithms, iiuc. If you ever discussed a rare disease, or toenail fungus, ...
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:31 AM
Sep 2022

…or building a patio deck, they’ll find you. Why can’t they find us with kittens and puppies instead?

Raine

(30,540 posts)
11. I get that horrible ad on other sites
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:29 AM
Sep 2022

it's so horribly disgusting that I avoid the site (it's not a political site but a support group site) was a regular one I liked.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
14. Its trypophobia triggering
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 01:42 AM
Sep 2022

Seriously sometimes I'm logged out on my tablet and I see it. It's so fake and obvious. But its meant to trigger those with trypophobia

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
16. I know the one you mean
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 02:22 AM
Sep 2022

It is horrible, if you read logged in as a star member you maybe won’t see it. I wasn’t sure what it was at first and then I realized it’s an eye. I have that phobia but only from specific things.

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