So - if your widgets are automatically running, can you delete the ad from the interface?  As in, watch 2 seconds of the ad, realize you don't want to see it, delete it, move on with your life?

Thanks,
  chris

Just wanna add one thing: I have also nothing against the adds with advertisements, I am just afraid some of them will be completely useless for me as I don't live in the U.S. Hopefully the chumby company plans some advertisement targeting, at least according to the users' account settings (country, gender, education ... probably also some areas of interest in future).

I don't know the specifics, but its like a widget inserted (read above) and to me it is inobstrusive and if you don't want to watch it, you skip past it or delete it. I use my chumby every day and I only see an ad about once every couple of weeks.

Like I said, I'm not particularly opposed to the idea (especially if I can keep the ones that amuse me and delete the ones that don't).  Thanks for all the responses.

I'm a new user and I'm EXTREMELY annoyed by the advertising.  It would be one thing if the ad were there, you deleted it, and it WENT AWAY, like any other widget, but the little suckers come back. 

There should at least be a way to opt out of the ads on the website. 

Why would Chumby want to make such a charming little device annoy it's customers?  I was going to buy one for my friend for his birthday, but not any more...

I have yet to see an ad, myself. They probably killed them off for the XMas season, knowing if they were there when people turned on their new device, they'd end up returning it.

I definitely was not meaning to imply what you should or shouldn't complain about. Honest. And I apologize if you read it that way. I looked at your date, thought you to be a brand new user and was letting you know in MY experience I didn't see ads and I was on regularly an hour and a half a day and that you shouldn't worry, so I was in "It's OK" mode. I don't do the desk thing, so you could be seeing something ENTIRELY different than I do in my nightly NYTimes, YouTube, and a few games. Sorry for the confusion.

This is off topic, I know, but I just have to say that you'd have LOVED my dad. I'd go with him when he purchased our brand new family car and was prepared and ready to pay cash or walk. He'd then ask for $200 to be taken off the bill. "For what?" the guy would say. "For the advertisement." "What advertisement?" "The decal (or screwed in plaque from back in the day) on the back of the car. The one that says, ____ Pontiac." "Oh No, sir, that car comes with that already on it." "Well, then, you can pay me $200 to advertise it for you or take it off. Your choice." and he would get up to leave. With all that cash. And I was a squirming teenager. But in later years, I did use a seam ripper to rip those little alligators of the front of my Izod shirts. And my dad has never had a decal or a screwed in thingy on the back of any of his cars. I've been waiting my whole life to be able to pay cash for a car so I could pull that little routine, (They don't give a darn when you are a payment sort of person, but I'm a teacher!) but it 'ain't' gonna happen!

I am TOTALLY well informed...but ONLY on the non-technical end of things so that won't help. I've been blessed with a Chumby that I turned on and put by my bed in November of 2007 and it has not crashed (shut-down?) or cut off once. My husband hooked mine up, I didn't know what it was, but now I leave it on 24/7 Pushpin-ed to my clock all day every day and it is not touched until I go to bed and have an hour of "Bedtime Book" time. Then back to push-pin on the clock when I go to work. I have may 150 widgets on 7 channels.

There is a hot or warm screen topic thread somewhere, mine IS warm. Not uncomfortable but the thread said it was supposed to and OK to get warm.

Now that you mention it, and this MIGHT be helpful, since I do leave it pegged every day, there have been A FEW days I have come home to goldfish bowl or scrolling widgets...not many...but I just attributed that to a burp somewhere, like something got re-set at Chumby. This has not bothered me or been a big deal so I thought nothing about it.

That being said, there are far many more people here on this forum that KNOW more than I do...I just have opinions, not knowledge, so SEARCH the threads (the search link is somewhere at the top of the page and is easy to use...type warm screen to start, but I promise, it IS OK to be warm, but I know Duane addressed it pretty good somewhere) and if you can't find what you want start a new one with a thread subject title that people who know your answers can respond to. Since THIS one is "topic of advertising" the people who know the answers to YOUR questions about other things might not be looking.

Here's a tip for you, if the ads bother you. The ads only appear in channels that have more than 10 widgets. You could always create several channels containing <10 widgets and use the custom alarm feature to cycle between them (say, every hour or 2 hours).