2000 Upper Deck Baseball Forum

due to the increase of pathetic adverts which make the site  unresponsive slow and bombing put i think its time tosay good bye and find a better place to log my cards

Good luck finding a better site then this. I wish you the best.  

You can upgrade to Premium for an ad-free version of the site [1]. If the ads are incredibly intrusive such as you cannot close them, etc. then feel free to contact Admin [2].

[1] https://www.tcdb.com/Premium.cfm

[2] https://www.tcdb.com/ContactUs.cfm

I can't remember where I heard it but this has stuck with me ever since: If something touts itself as free or no cost, then you are the product being sold.

I remember when I joined the site a few years back and immediately loved it. Although, occasionally, it bogged down due to lagging ads, it ran quite smooth. However, I recognized that I kept getting the same ads over and over and some were slower to load than others (I have no idea why). I noticed the banner that suggested switching to a subscription to get rid of the ads. I checked into it and for a measly $5 a month I have been ad free for years.

I will be honest, I am no fan of subscription-based proprietary software (I need a lot of it for my business), but when it comes to my entertainment, I don't want to be bogged down by car commercials and ads for social anxiety medicine. I pay my subscriptions to Spotify and Netflix and enjoy ad-free streaming without being bombarded by things I don't want or need.

I cut the cable about 12 years ago and have been happy about it ever since. I suggest trying the $5 option for a bit rather than dropping out altogether. For $60/year, this site is beyond worth it.  

---Ford

The Ads brought me to my knees and I paid the subscription.  It was either leave the site or pay, because the ads were making it unusable.  I've been on the site for over 10 years and I have never seen the ads even any where near as aggressive as they have been in the last few months.  I think all users are going to have to face this decision soon.  There have been tons of forum discussions about the ads, there's no way the admin doesn't know what's going on.  If this is what needs to be done to keep the site running, so be it.  But the site should honest about it and acknowledge the elephant in the room.