The un-closable banners are very pathetic and extremely annoying

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kapowpow
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The massive banners titled "Give yourself the best tools to win" that beg me to sign up for premium are incredibly pathetic. I am not signing up for a service that provides no value but costs several thousand dollars per year. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever, yet seeking alpha insists on making my experience on the site more and more miserable each week. The massive, screen-filling, un-closable banners are just the latest iteration of that.

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mayberg

Let us know what alternative you're going to - save us all the research. This is annoying.

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Sridhar Krishnan
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Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out and we regret the inconvenience.

I have noted this feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our Product team and developers for further review and consideration.

Your support is much appreciated :)

If you need any more help, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,

Sri




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Sridhar Krishnan | Customer Support | Seeking Alpha α

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stoudemire24
Quote from Sridhar Krishnan

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out and we regret the inconvenience.

I have noted this feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our Product team and developers for further review and consideration.

Your support is much appreciated :)

If you need any more help, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,

Sri




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Sridhar Krishnan | Customer Support | Seeking Alpha α

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The 'Join Now' on my portfolio page takes up a large part of the page. I also can't see the daily changes in the different indexes that use to show on the page.

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mmc1968

They take up 60% of my screen on my galaxy s21 and about 33% on my desktop.  Incredible that seekingalpha would do this.

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Sridhar Krishnan
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Smarty_Pants
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No.  It's not completed.  You just moved it to some other part of the website ... again.

Now the Articles and News links below a portfolio list are unavailable because you choose to advertise for paying more to read what used to be free.  It's not even content you created, you're just hoping to gather paying customers by being extra annoying.  Here's a hint.   It won't work.  If anything, you'll drive users away and decrease the value of any advertising you're currently getting paid to display.

Why can't it be standard practice to ALWAYS have a way for users to close banners that block access to any part of the page?

I've been using SA since 2008 and it keeps getting less and less beneficial because of stuff like this.  Maybe you could explain that dynamic to your Product Team so they learn something of value.