About this article (https://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/)

  • Unknown's avatar
    tedthesite · Member ·

    Are you serious?, Are you now going to run adds for whatever you want on my free site? I know I can pay to prevent this, but I am writing a free math blog for kids – and came to wordpress because it was free and clean. Please reconsider this change, remember what happened to all those free add supported website platforms of past – geocities anyone?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Nothing has changed in this regard recently. We have been running ads on free sites for many years, and the support doc you refer to in the thread title was published in 2009 already.

    If you don’t want ads to appear on your site you will need to subscribe to one of our plans. Otherwise ads will be shown to a small percentage of logged out visitors to your site, but visitors who are logged into WordPress.com should not see any ads.

    If you come across any ads you consider inappropriate, please take a screen shot of the ad in question, and then start a new thread in this forum to report it and we’d be happy to look into it.

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    tedthesite · Member ·

    Thanks, I found articles complaining about inappropriate ads on free WordPress sites dating back to 2010, so I was wrong, nothing has changed in that regard.

    However, the very reasonable $30 a year to get rid of those ads has skyrocketed to $72, by bundling this service with other services I’m not interested in, and calling them a “plan”.

    Please revert to your piecemeal method of charging – $30 for ads, $24 for custom domain. I would be more than happy to give you money for items I need. I dislike services I neither need nor want piled into a “plan”.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Thanks for the feedback. We’ve been bundling everything into plans for about two years now, and it’s unlikely that we’ll go back to stand-alone upgrades, but we are working on some more affordable plan options for people who don’t need all the features included in Premium.

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    tedthesite · Member ·

    I was referring to your more affordable plans when I mentioned $72 a year – which is the cost of your “personal plan” per year ($5.99 a month x 12 months)

    Previously the costs would have been $54 a year for: $30 – no ads, and $24 for custom domain, and the only addition is mail-chat support.

    As I said, bundling is a negative in the consumers view (IMO),

    Apple un-bundled record albums and made a fortune, Cable companies have been bundling for years, and are now suffering.

    Please let us buy what we want rather than creating bundles for us of items we don’t want or need.

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    @moderntimesblogger

    My 2¢/
    In the Personal plan you’re already covered with two of the single upgrades you said you wanted, a Custom Domain/Mapping and No Ads.

    The difference between $54/year and the $72/year Personal plan covers direct support by email and live chat with Staff so that you can contact them directly instead of posting in the public forums. That’s $1.5/month for world class support, about the cost of a candy bar (+/-).
    /My 2¢

  • Unknown's avatar
    tedthesite · Member ·

    All I really need is no ads on a static web site. The price of that has gone up from $30 a year to $72 a year, based on packaging this with other services I neither want or need.

    I’m sorry I confused you by mentioning custom domain, I was only using it as an example of another un-bundled service that some bloggers might be interested in.

    So for clarity, personally, for a blog, I don’t care if you run ads, and I like the wordpress domain, so I’ll continue to use the free wordpress.com as it is and hope your ads are appropriate.

    However, for a static web site I would like no ads, and again, I am happy to use the wordpress.com domain

    I neither want nor need support. I assume wordpress will still fix bugs.

    As a user, I don’t ask for help to use facebook or instagram etc, so I don’t expect to need help to use wordpress.com.

    I hope wordpress will offer a static website option for people like me. The $72 is not competitive, nor is it good value. (IMO)

  • Unknown's avatar
    tedthesite · Member ·

    BTW, I’ve moved my math blog to Tumblr. I dont think it’s right to link to it or promote it here. (So far, all they advertise is Tumblr itself).

    But Tumblr is not my cup of tea for a static site.

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