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DeviantART has been a reliable and easy to use website for years. It provided an open minded and mature community in which to recieve constructive criticism and feedback from around the world, and a way to put your art on the web without complicated copyrights and rule happy administration. But it's come to the attention of many deviantART users that they are being annoyed into subscribing by large, obtrusive ads in the middle of galleries and favorites galleries of nonsubscribing users. It's understandable that a website needs funding to survive, and ads are a way of bringing that in. But if deviantART were having financial troubles, we would hope that they would ask the users for help, instead of berating them with ads. Some users see two, or even less thumbnails in a gallery before they are interrupted by large, bulky ads and they must move to the next page. Advertisements in general tend not to bother us, but ads in galleries, amongst an artists work? That is going too far. DeviantART has even lost subscriptions because of these ads; those who wanted to sign up, and those who stopped subscribing out of protest. Please, deviantART, consider the fallbacks to these nonsensical ads, and act.
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Ms G
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There are far too many ad's, I'm a subscriber and when I log in to a club I run that isn't a sub I'm shocked at the level of ads. It's not a good image for the site and it's a great site. This ads are damaging it's image and must look terrible to new visi
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Phil N
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The ads have gotten too much... they slow down my computer speed.. it must end.
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<a href="http://rakaithwei,deviantart.com" target="_new">Rakai'Thwei</a>
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Bl Stuart
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When people are greeted with a giant ad, they are more likely to leave the site than spend time searching how to get around them. These full-page ads are unsightly and discourage people from viewing the artists' work. Please, reconsider your use of these
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Ara Sanders
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Please, guys. This is ridiculous. My profile is uglified. Not to mention super-slow since they're FLASH.
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Natalie N
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The ads are annoying enough, I understand you're trying to make money, but I see the ads already! Putting them in the middle of the galleries makes me NOT want to click them.
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Morbid-dragon
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Spleefmistress Pineda
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Ads smack in the galleries are disrespectful to the artists, and tells them what DeviantART REALLY thinks of them, as the ads are a blatant bid for Deviant's money.
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Brian Mcguire
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That's messed up.
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<a href="http://vaporiss.deviantart.com" target="_new">vaporiss</a>
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Dinogrrl Miles
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I have to say that this is probably the most disappointing thing I've ever seen come from dA. Please put the ads somewhere besides out art space.
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<a href="http://teh-dino.deviantart.com" target="_new">teh-dino</a>
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Toby Moody
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I've considered leaving DA because of those ads because I hear Sheezyart is better. I'm currently a subscriber because I won a contest, but once that runs out, who knows what will happen?
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David Barnes
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I'm sure we all know and greatly appreciate the hard work that the staff of DeviantArt does to keep this site fun and running. But the recent placement of the adds within gallery borders was very inconsiderate, and to many, offensive. Removal or repositio
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Daniel M
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ads suck... nuff said
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<a href="http://archie2k7.deviantart.com/" target="_new"></a>
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Malik Davenport
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I wholeheartedly agree. Not only are they annoying, the flash ones tend to lag the pages, especially when there's more than one.
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<a href="http://malikkitsune.deviantart.com" target="_new">MalikKitsune</a>
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Amanda F
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ads are necessary, but there's a point where ad placement becomes disrespectful-- and just because someone can't pay for something, that doesn't give anyone a reason to disrespect them.
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