This is my number 1 most annoying thing. I am even considering just using gmail, google, whatever, and dropping my paid sub to aol. Seriously I pay $20+ to have you inundate me with ads and articles that you have to click, move, etc 15 times to get the story. Seem to me that years ago that was the reason you paid NOT TO GET THE ADS otherwise it was free to use but you got the ads. Its becoming the topic of conversation.

I have to download as many as 30 pages to read an article. Sometimes the article locks up and I can not even finish it. This is unacceptable to me. I am paying for your service and I should not be inundated with so many advertisements. I am sure that is the reason for the numerous pages, so you can maximize the number of advertisements the customer is exposed to. Please do something about this as I do not have time or band width to download all of these pages.

Stop pop ups from recurring in the same article. Once is enough. I can't post the screen shot. 3 adds blocked the entire page. You're kidding, it's a joke, right?

I have been With AOL for over 20 years and will discontinue service if you cannot get rid of having to hit NEXT to read a story and also the NEXT button jumps around so you hit on another ad..Very juvenile tactic. . if you cannot tell me how to eliminate these issues i will drop all service in 30 days and bad mouth AOL like I have heard from then on

Stop with those large ads at the top of the news. This is ridiculous already. Now there are ads on 4 sides of the news - and the top ads are huge causing us the annoyance of closing them and then scrolling down to read the news. Most of us know because it is all over the web that that the only reason for AOL Gold is for AOL to make money from ads.... but enough is enough already. I've been a member since the 90's and am thinking of leaving because of this and because AOL does not address our problems or even reply when we report a problem.

>>An Excellent point (along with ALL the others like it)~ that needs to be repeated a 'million' times, until AOL gets the 'POINT'!!!!!

STOP..... with clicking "Next" to read any articles/stories. It gets so frustrating and irritating, I will close it immediately. Also, I feel I get tagged more by spam if I even attempt to look at a story, so now I don't even go to any. It's no way to run a site and for any of us having to pay for a "Gold" Account. My spam folder is exceedingly full, which I have to manually enter and then the so call spam controls don't even work. Something needs to be fixed or go back to the way you originally had it, not catering to the advertisers and spammers. Your customers should be #1. I do have another provider that I don't use, I could easily jump ship. Sincerely, A Long Time Subscriber.

How can I eliminate those annoying pop-up ads (Like Rotita) that keep flashing constantly? HATE THEM!

Besides having to click next each time, ads keep popping up that I have closed. So annoying...
You really need patience to read the articles.

In addition to the "next" scenerio...please stop with all the pop-up adds. It is just so difficult to read something news worthy with all the continuous pop-ups. Please, clean it up. I love the fact AOL is attempting to report news highlights...but enough with the ads.

You provide many interesting headlines, but we never get to read the story for two reasons. One, which has been mentioned, is having to "click" past the ads which will never be read. Two, we want to read the "news" and NOT read the geologic beginning of each and every story. PLEASE, GIVE US THE STORY FOR THE HEADLINE THAT DRAWS OUR ATTENTION.

ADG Paid ADs under news.
I would recommend allowing the subscriber the ability to control having the paid adds showing or not showing while reading the news articles. The adds become quite distracting especially if you have visual difficulties

Removing Ads in the ADG. I can hardly see my aol screen when I browse with DG because of all the pop ups covering the screen. This has gotten to be way too much.

You incompetent village idiots were told and told to cease the expanding ads on the Welcome Screen but we are still seeing them, why? Then when we click on another page, the ad appears again. We don't want nor need this ****. Never in my life have I seen such a bunch of incompetent morons like you!
We also don't want any Turbo Tax, HR Block or Jackson Hewitt ads either as we get enough of them daily on TV and don't want to be annoyed by them online too.
When are you stupid incompetent worthless bottom feeders going to start showing some respect and consideration towards your members?

I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE "NEXT" REPORTS ... AS SOON AS i READ THE FIRST PART AND SCROLL DOWN TO "NEXT" i GO OUT OF THE EDITORIAL...NOT WORTH IT... SO, THEREFORE, I ALSO MISS ALL THE ADS THAT HAVE PAID FOR THIS STORY! BET COMPANIES ADVERTISING ON THE EDITORIALS AREN'T AWARE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT SCROLLING THROUGH 20 OR 30 "NEXT" OPTIONS TO READ YOUR NEWS AND SEE THEIR ADS.

Oh wow! More slideshows! I can't get enough of them! I love reading only a sentence or two on every page.

I love that it takes forever for those two sentences to appear while 40 or 50 click bait ******** ads are already there.

I love how it takes AT LEAST a dozen pages to tell a story that is one or two paragraphs long while being inundated with ads from scammers.

I love how, despite EVERYONE hating on your changes have prompted you to completely ignore them and just giving us all just exactly what we don't want.

I love how you have turned AOL into an incredibly loathsome, malfunctioning, molasses-slow piece of festering, rotting, stench-filled piece of utter garbage!

I just canceled my 23 year long membership with AOL because I love everything you've done SO MUCH!

I don't know why I waste my time writing these or watching Boredom Therapy. It is **** near impossible to read something when ads keep flopping into the picture. I guess I'm done reading stories. And I doubt that anyone really reads these comments.

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Just looking at the piece on the ways the shut down hurts us, nine slide with the caption hidden unless clicked rather than having it along the side. Oh, but, there's an ad there! Sure is, but I think there is enough room for both the caption and the ad. I know someone with a brain could see that and think that both of those things could be there. I suppose that is too simple.

Amen. I not only will not click on an ad, I have to move the story up and down because the ads obscure the bulk of the screen. I have gotten to the point that when I click on a teaser (story) and it has a next, I abandon it as a waste of time. You should fire the whole "NEXT" department and save some money. I have been an AOL paying customer for more than 10 years and only stay because of the email address that I do not wish to change. Whenever I go through the "Welcome" screen with all the storyboards, I feel like I have "******" written on my head for everyone to see.

Amen. I not only will not click on an ad, I have to move the story up and down because the ads obscure the bulk of the screen. I have gotten to the point that when I click on a teaser (story) and it has a next, I abandon it as a waste of time. You should fire the whole "NEXT" department and save some money. I have been an AOL paying customer for more than 10 years and only stay because of the email address that I do not wish to change. Whenever I go through the "Welcome" screen with all the storyboards, I feel like I have "******" written on my head for everyone to see.