Ads on Freegle's website

External advertising on the Freegle website brings in some of the income needed to keep Freegle running.

Since August 2024, Freegle is once again using Google ads.

Paying to opt out of ads

Above the page footer ad is a line saying:

Hate ads? Us too. Donate, and we'll turn them off for a month. Learn more

This link invites users to make a financial donation to Freegle, after which they should see no ads for a month. Also, if total donations in one day reach a stated daily target, ads will be turned off for everyone that day.

Ad filtering

The Geeks can report inappropriate ads to the provider. Volunteers help by reporting suspicious ads.

An example of an unacceptable scam ad is one with a large button along the lines of "click here to activate your account".

A request for volunteers to join the Ads monitoring team was placed on Discourse on 21st February 2025 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/ads-monitoring-team/8342

Current team members are shown on the ModTools Teams page: https://modtools.org/modtools/teams. If you need to contact them, post a message in the Tech & ModTools category on Discourse.