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Pop up ads making site unusable

I visited the site for the first time in a while, hoping I might be able to use it more regularly fore tracking and reviewing music. Your pop-up ads (especially the side banners you can't get rid of) on mobile and even on my laptop mean if I see AllMusic as a suggested site, I'll avoid it. The below is supposedly a music website:

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You're not wrong.
We do have a lot of ads on the site.

We've needed to move to a more aggressive ad model for many reasons.
Detailed here if you're interested: https://allmedianetwork.helprace.com/i8-support-allmusic-and-go-ad-free

We also have a subscription version where users can support AllMusic and get a faster ad-free experience. https://www.allmusic.com/subscribe
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A hugely annoying issue is that the video ads offer a X in the corner to close them...but when I click the X I'm served a different ad in return. I realize AllMusic isn't creating the ads but this just makes being forced to watch video ads that much worse.

AH

Thanks Zac. It's a fair price for a subscription.

What is most annoying is that one square pop-up ad to the right as it covers up content, and it doesn't actually work; it can't actually be closed. If that wasn't there or could actually be closed, the site would be so much better.

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Let me talk to our ad provider and see if they can better honor that close button.

AH

Thanks Zac. It's a small change, but it would allow folks to view the actual content on the page.

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I think we have the video ad player actually closing when you tell it to close.

Are you still seeing this annoying behavior?

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AH

It looks to be fixed, much appreciated!

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