Question about an ad

[Blue_playwright]

I’m getting an overpowering iPhone/YouTube ad that takes over DU completely on the homepage and after a click or two internally when I type in another DU page link. Anyone else having this problem or know how to navigate around it?

[True Dough]

1. I would strongly recommend

AdBlock or uBlock. I never surf without the former turned on. It makes a world of difference. The only drawback is that numerous news sites detect it and you often cannot see content unless you make them an exception ("whitelist" them).

[Midnightwalk]

2. I just got the same annoying ad

Had to close tab to get rid if it. I’ll update with link when it happens again

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You can avoid the ads by buying a member star. Any amount of $ will work.

The ads disappear and you have other good things happening.

If you click on the "My Account" tab at the top of any page, you will see a row of tabs there. The last tab is called Star Membership.

When you go there, you will find out what donating to DU will do for you.

[dewsgirl]

4. It's great and easy to do.

[mr_lebowski]

5. You forgot the part about how all the kool kids are doing it!

[dewsgirl]

7. Only the very coolest.😎

[NotASurfer]

6. Might have a cleanup from DU Apple Users forum

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1096&pid=4487


Ran into the same iPhone persistent redirected to an ad thing & put the short version in the link.

In turn was from an Apple discussion of the problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-13111

[Blue_playwright]

8. Thanks everyone!

I was pretty sure it was just a redirect but it was so persistent that I was a little worried it was something worse!