


Neither I, nor anyone else, agreed to view ads in exchange for playing chess here. Why not be thankful they are not making it a paid only service, and welcome the opportunity to provide them back with some nominal advertising revenue to cover the costs of a free service you are taking advantage of?įull disclosure - I am not associated with in any way and I am not a paying member. By finding ways not to allow them to recover these costs in accordance with their business model, you are effectively stealing that free service. To make this free service to you worth their while, they are posting advertisements that they can earn back some revenue to cover the costs of the FREE services they are providing to you. They have provided you with a great website, and the opportunity to participate completely free of charge. Sorry to take the opposing viewpoint here - but just what is it you all expect? Do you think magically gets computer time for free to put up this web site? Do you think bugs that get noted in posts, and then fixed, magically fix themselves? Do you think spam attacks in the message board just magically disappear? I could go on and on.
