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Tuesday, July 8th, 2025

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IMDbPro forced advertisement imposed on an IMDb member

Today I was updating company data in a number of duplicate files, when at one of the pages I was barred by a rectangular promo from IMDbPro «suggesting» I renew an old subscription I had a decade ago... There were to buttons available: subscribe, or read conditions. I was not interested in neither of those options, and looked for the little X that would allow me to delete the intrusive pop-up block. There was not. I looked, and looked again, than I took a print screen for my record: the day IMDb infringes three basic principles of respect to its members. I know, I was one of the founders of the Consumers Association in my country, back in 1973. This is IMDb Policy going down the drain!

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@artemis_9 Thanks for the problem report. Please can you describe in more detail which page(s) you were updating when this happened? Was this an isolated occurrence or did it repeat? Can you upload the screen-grab of the pop-up to an image sharing site so we can take a look? We would not intentionally show a pop-up without a “close” option.

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Thanks for the attention. It was a department of University of Virginia [us], which I wished to merge with the company's main file - as I did to a couple others at the same time. It was the single case out of half a dozen files that I was correcting at the time. It was the second of those; after the incident, I dealt with the others with no problem. I returned to it and tried in vain to close the blocking pop-up: «Save up to 50% on IMDbPro. Try it for free blablabla / Renew your membership / See terms and conditions» Then I did the screen capture, at 16h56m local time (GMT). I have no image sharing site account, but I'd gladly send it to you by email. By the way, I tried to upload it as evidence with my post, but also failed to find such a function that I rarely used, but I remember from a century ago in IMDb.

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