The adds are out of hand
You people are trying to make the free version of this app so insufferable that you're destroying your product. I'm guessing you're trying to make people shell out money for one of your premium versions. I rarely noticed what these ads are even for because I'm so angry at being shown them. All I've done is open the app. I've not had a chance to so much is interact with it yet, and you're showing me an ad. So now I have to x out of four screens, each screen has to stay up for so long before I can close it, and that's just to get back to the app if I'm lucky. Why do I have to close four screens to get out of the ad? In what world does that seem reasonable? What web traffic could these advertisers possibly be getting from your ads, because if I ever manage to even notice what they're for I basically vowed to never give them my business because they make me so mad. I've been using this app off and on since 2010. I don't remember when you started showing pop-up ads, but I do know they have never made me want whatever they're selling. I usually don't even know, because the whole time all I'm doing is looking for the spot I have to touch to make it go away. Couldn't you just leave it at two screens, and leave them up for long enough that I can even tell what the hell they're for, and call it good enough? And what's with the tiny x that's pushed so far into the corner of the screen, you're not even sure the whole ex is showing. At least least half the time you can't seem to hit the exact spot because apparently anything that's not the little x is going to redirect you. So many times I'll see the notification, and just ignore it because I don't want to have to deal with an ad, because I know I'll have to view one before I can even read the message. A lot of the time, I just decide it's not worth bothering. You're getting way too greedy, and you're going to alienate the largest demographic of your entire user base. It's not like the freezers don't make you money, and if you alienate all of us, your premium users are not really going to feel like they have such a great experience either cuz it's going to be a lot fewer people using the app. Seriously guys get it together, because I think about deleting this app multiple times every day that I open it. You have a lot of other issues you need to work on too, but that's the one that pisses me off so much that it's going to lose me as a user at some point. The amount of ads is ridiculous, but primarily because of how hard they are to back out of. You have got to stop showing ads before the user has even done anything. At least go back to letting me actually view the profile, read the message, or message a profile first. Go back to showing me an ad after I try to back out of whatever I've already done, because at least then you've provided me with something functional ish before making me view an ad.