[MShechSon]

I’m noticing some unpleasant changes to ads in the mobile app on iOS. Maybe the are also happening on desktop browsers but I primarily use mobile.

1. When there are ads at the top, they seem to sometimes takeover the whole screen while I’m doing something in a hand and I have to swipe to make them go away. I’m not sure if this is because I touched near (but not on) the ad or because the ad just gets to do that now. It’s frustrating and intrusive and makes me lose focus.

2. Ads are no longer gone for the whole week if you pay for a tournament. Is it one day now? Or not at all?

3. I now see a banner ad to subscribe to ad-free for $0.99/week. That’s cheaper than BBO+ but not by much.

4. Historically I have not seen the “install this ad” popover ads on BBO but now I do.

5. Having no way to subscribe to either from my account page in the mobile app is counter-intuitive. That’s where I expect to be able to subscribe to either option because almost every other website I’ve ever used does it that way. Now that there are two subscription options it really needs to move there.

Overall ads have gotten a lot more aggressive. I guess it’s a revenue thing but I’m not super thrilled with it.

Were these changes announced somewhere?

It would be nice if BBO+ had some additional new features given this new “no ad” tier.

[42krunner]

I have the same questions.

Could BBO at least get rid of the horrible movie style ads that take over the iPad after leaving a table? I’ve never seen anything obtrusive