General Forum

Something has changed over the past few weeks,  but the ads are just awful.  The site changes all the time.  I go to click a link and magically an ad appears out of nowhere tricking me to click the ad. Oh and as far as proposing a transaction you literally have about 10 seconds before an ad pops up and kicks you out of making your selections. 

I get the need for ads oh paid membership but what's happened over the last month or so? 

I have messaged ADMIN and the ad company went rogue. If you are having issues, he wants people to reach out to him. 

I am having the same issues. Forced to close 2 or 3 popups just trying to add a card to my collection. Its a real shame how its taken away from the otherwise awesomeness that is TCDB. 

I hear you all, for sure. I know ads have a function, but is it ever bad lately! My friend just binge watched Grey's Anatomy. All the shows were commercial free and ran 40 to 41 minutes. That means 19 to 20 minutes of ads per hour on tv. TV that I have to pay for! My phone tacks on 10 to 15 ads per day, that I pay for! Now the computer is catching up, with pop ups galore, and I pay for that! I guess I am paying for the ads so I shouldn't complain. But I'm going to.

While understanding that ads drive revenue that keep TCDb running, you have some options if things get really bad:

1) Upgrade to TCDb Premium (Ad-free) for starting at $5/mo - https://www.tcdb.com/Premium.cfm
2) Add a DNS record to your phone to go through an ad blocker (like dns.adguard.com)
3) Use another browser app on your phone that has ad-blocking built in (like FAB Adblocker Browser)

Obviously, if you can financially afford it, we will always recommend going the premium route, but if you need a bandaid for a bit while the really obtrusive ads get fixed, I hope these options help.

I didnt know there was a premium version! Thanks ill check that out. Should probably promote that a little more :)

I had missed the Premium version too, somehow.  I'm glad you mentioned it, I just signed up.  I get way more than I give to this site so happy to do it.  

I check the site on mobile once in a while (usually the forums) and don't see any of these pop-ups, and I don't have an ad-blocker on my phone. Not sure if the phone is too old to receive them or what.

Anyone else able to use the mobile site with no problem, and if so, do you sponsor any of the player or team pages?

Since fist posting this I started using Duck Duck Go and I notice I don't have the issue.  Microsoft Edge forget about it, it's unusable.

I use Chrome on an Android phone (an older model) with no blocking (and I['m not a premium member at the moment). I was using it at a card show on Saturday to access my want lists (as I didn't want to overdo the buying, guy had a bunch in my wheelhouse). I had one ad pop up to start (which honestly could have been an ad for the store that offered the wifi, I closed it fast and didn't read it), clicked the x to close it, and didn't see another pop up the entire time, and I accessed easily 100 unique TCDB pages during my session. Maybe because I use incognito mode for 99% of my browsing / Google searches, Google has no info on me.