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I was hoping that the partnership with Sportlots would help pay the bills so the ads could be reduced - instead it's been increased.  I'm not paying $5 a month since I don't use this site for trading or logging my collection.  I just like to add images and edit items as needed.  I usually access this site on my computer so the ads aren't super annoying (although the newer addition of a giant unmovable ad bar at the bottom is ridiculous).  This site is almost unusable on mobile phones - ads, ads, and then pop-up ads everywhere.  Reminds me of the internet circa 2002.

Use the Brave browser on your phone and computer. It has a similar interface as Chrome but with better functionality and block ads and pop-ups on sites without sacrificing performance.

What jrayes said. I use Brave on my phone and get zero popups. But on my Amazon Fire (which I like to use for adding my Collection) I get that stupid Walmart/Nintendo add every 15 seconds. It’s absolutely ridiculous and the site is practically unusable. Paid subscription or not it’s making the TCDB product look terrible. And the “ad free” is a misnomer; all that tells me is that TCDB can control it and has decided to bombard its users with unrelenting ads. 

I don't have an issue (or at least a major one) with the presence of the ads. I understand why they are there and how they support running this site.

But please, try to do something about the auto-refresh of the ads where every 10 seconds or whatever it changes it to a different ad. The constant 'processing request' and 'waiting for adserver XYZ' to respond etc make the pages almost unusable. It's just contstant waiting for these to complete.