Why am I seeing ads in software I already paid for?
Paid software increasingly forces pop-ups, forced payment enrollments, and unclosable AI assistants directly into everyday workflows. This constant barrage interrupts basic tasks and makes it impossible to use the software cleanly without stopping to close advertisements on every page.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Closing the offer pop-up manually every time it appears
- 2Using adblockers or user scripts like Greasemonkey to block elements
- 3Switching to alternative software like Xero
- 4Using browser extensions like RightTool
- 5using adblocker filters
- 6looking for software alternatives
- 7switching back to manual or paper ledgers
- 8using third-party browser extensions or plugins to block nonsense
- 9looking for settings to turn off pop-ups
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The AI assistant is garbage. It pops up when you don't want it to, there's no way to turn it off”source ↗
“We now have to decline a unsolicited loan offer from Intuit every single time an invoice is saved. On a *paid* product.”source ↗
“Fuck pop ups. And fuck QB for shoving them in my face while I'm trying to work.”source ↗
“As if I didn't get the million emails about registering for Dreamforce... no, that wasn't enough... I needed ads in my org to be in my face.”source ↗
“Between AI and constant ads popping up, it's so slow. I dont understand why I pay for a service but still have to deal with ads.”source ↗
“You know it’s gone too far when you can’t PAY them to stop serving you ads!”source ↗
“I am so goddamn tired of having to close pop up windows to see the thing I came to see.”source ↗
“Seriously, it's predatory. And they keep bugging me about pay roll, I'm fucking self employed! I don't need fucking payroll!”source ↗
“The frequency of ads - and the near-inability to push past QuickBooks Payments enrollment is unhinged.”source ↗
“I’m so tired of getting an Ad Popup on Every. Single. Page. all day every day.”source ↗
“I've had to pour back through last year's transactions to look for mistakes that I didn't realize AI was making.”source ↗
“The ads are so annoying and the interface is so chaotic.”source ↗
“I started got 3 or 4 of these yesterday. My options at the bottom were only “apply today” and “learn more”. The x was hidden at the top left in grey.”source ↗
“Has anyone had the full page advert yet? I logged in and the entire page was an advert. Couldn't believe it”source ↗
Where this came up
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