Ads, now? Seriously?
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I’m already paying WordPress for my blog, and then they go ahead and put ads in it. Not only don’t I get any money for displaying ads on MY OWN PAID-FOR BLOG, WordPress even finds it reasonable to offer me an “upgrade” to get rid of them.
It wouldn’t bother me one bit to have to pay more for the domain if it’s actually that expensive. Up the price if you must. But it’s downright disrespectful to go in and manipulate my blog and then charge me money to stop.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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All hosting here is free of charge. You get exactly what you pay for. All free hoisted blogs without No-Ads upgrades have advertising on them.
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When you purchase domain mapping all that changes is the URL and nothing else. Important Notes Before Upgrading
To off-set the costs of providing free hosting to millions of bloggers, WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. Many bloggers do not know this because despite the fact they ticked the box required to get a free blog, they did not read the ToS. Many also do not read the advertising entry in the support documents after registering their username and blog(s). Also note that as the ads do not display to us when we are logged in, and as many use browsers with ad blockers when logged out, they may not realize they are there at all.
10. Advertisements. Automattic reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a VIP Services account. http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
If the ads you see are found at the end of blog posts then provided you see this small About These Ads link what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising.
WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s embedded into free games downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware.
If what you are seeing whenever you save or update a post or page is an automatically added code/script block at the end of posts and pages that you can’t delete then see here: Malware Targets Macs and Windows PCs
All of WordPress.com ads are family-friendly. If you feel an ad is inappropriate please take a screenshot of it, upload it via Media -> Add New to your Media Library. Then return to this thread to post the file name to let Staff them know it’s there for them to view.
Lastly, note to eliminate all advertising on our free hosted WordPress.com blogs we can purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.
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Short form: ads have always been on your blog, but you only noticed them now. If you bought the custom domain upgrade, what you got was a custom domain, nothing else. If you want no ads, buy the No Ads upgrade.
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