I reported this to the dev's earlier todya.  Covered! Thanks for confirming it wasnt just me though.

The problem seems to have gone away.....

Yeah...I'm seeing ads as well now....wasn't before though.

A screenshot would probably be the best way to show us where the ads are popping up.

Yes, the ads are sporatic. All over the place.
Even those tacky "section icons", on the right, will show up after awhile. Even though I hide them.
Wish they were set, when I log in, to keep my setting after I hide them. That would be nice.

I have 2 screenshots. One of them is from this very thread. I am a paid subscriber and I have seen these all over the place as well.

Sorry BigDog.

Mess removed...

Thanks Jafo you're great.  

Yup....ads come and go.

Yes, this issue is still a problem.
Adds, adds and more adds.......
Logged-in, not logged-in.......

When reporting issues (of any kind) please remember to include the url of the page that you are experiencing these issues on (because index.html is much different than index.aspx, for example) and what browser you were using.

I know we've been suggesting this a lot lately, and please understand that it's definately not a cop-out or a cookie cutter response, but if you're experiencing these issues, please give this a shot: open up your cookies location. CLOSE your browser. Delete the wincustomize and stardock cookies. Start your browser. You should not be logged in at this point. Go to www.wincustomize.com/index.aspx << notice the index.aspx. Log in. Make sure you're on index.aspx again. See if you have ads (1). Then visit index.html. See if you have ads (2). Please reference the two different pages by the (#) if you're replying to this [my] reply

Z71's problem is the exact problem I was having at the old site. I was getting the ?c=1 at the end of the url string. Manually changing the 1 to a 0 would allow me to be kind of 'half' logged in.

I could read all the posts in a thread, and even type something in the response field. If I tried to post my reply though, the site would throw up the old "you need to be logged in to reply" error.

The problem was intermittent, and often went away of it's own accord. I also found that when I actually did manage to 'fully' log in ...if I visited any other of the Stardock sites using the same tab I was on at the time, if I then hit the "back" button I would be logged out [either half or fully] with that dreaded c=1 at the end of the url string.

It was happening with both FireFox [latest ver.] and I.E.7.

Since migrating to the new WinCustomize, I've not had the problem again.

Andrew_ even took a quick look at the time, but each time I wanted something to go wrong [for his debugging purposes] ...typically, it just wouldn't happen.

sneaky l'il BUGgers..