Quick survey: Do you see obnoxious livejournal ads?

[mattbell]

Hi all,

I've received several reports that people have to look at obnoxious ads when reading this blog or posting comments.

I don't see any ads.  I don't know if that's a function of me having a paid account or of firefox's foxy ad blocker.  However, the idea of me paying $25 a year to host a blog that's serving fullscreen ads to people who look at it just seems wrong.  

So please let me know if you see ads and whether you have no account, a free account, or a paid account. 

If this is annoying enough people, it might be time to finally move over to wordpress for public posting. 

Comments

[danaoshee.livejournal.com]

I believe it depends on what type of account you're viewing from - I started having to randomly view ads after my paid account expired.
I just hit refresh if an ad comes up, though, and since it's random, it then goes away.

[shandrew.livejournal.com]

No advertising should appear while viewing any paid account's entries:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=262
(though that isn't 100% clear for plus accounts)

Paid accounts should not see any ads on LJ, ever, and that's been my experience (aside from when i get logged out).

Wordpress.com will also stick ads on some entries unless you pay extra for no ads.