Ads have arrived on Steemit.com. It was pointed out to me by 
They only show up when you are not logged in at Steemit.com as far as I can tell.
When you ARE logged in you don't see anything.
They are placed at the bottom of any blogpost after the comments.
And in the Feed and sidebar.
Pretty clever actually, you need a Steem Account to not see the ads. And a Steem Account is no longer free (well, unless you want to wait 3 weeks or know a person with RC's to create one for you).
Cheapest way I know to get an account instantly with USD is with Steem Ninja. For $2 you get a Steem account + 15SP delegation for 90 days and as it appears for now at least an ad free steemit.com experience. Sign up here.
But even without an account I don't find the placement of the ads intrusive and I hope they will help Steemit inc. cover some costs in USD.
Also remember Steemit.com is just one of many frontends to access the Steem Blockchain.
There are many more and they will show the same content:
Busy.org, Steempeak, Steeve, Surfer (Desktop app) or on Mobile Partiko or Esteem.
And next to that you have specialised apps that will only show content created through their app like:
A full day of Steem Monsters Tournaments
The biggest price money of the day for 1 tournament is 1000 SBD!
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