It's safe, so if you want to, then get premium. Just bear in mind that they're aware of the bad ads, but their solution was lowering premium so people give in and buy it.

I'm switching to bazaar.tf. From what I know, the only thing they are doing to alleviate the ad problem is lowering the premium price to a dollar per month (premiums get no ads) so people just give in and go premium. I've seen moderators on here link people to the same thing every time with no further input every time there's a thread regarding unpleasant ads, but reporting doesn't do much in the end. Even if you report those video ads or ads that are borderline intrusive and they get removed, more will just come along. Outpost says they have no control over their ads, but they should have control over who they choose to provide ads for them. It's obvious that their ad provider is not the best and there are probably better ones out there.

For me personally these ads are also making load times rediculous despite good internet and my computer not being a trash can, and when I'm switching pages often it's unbearable.

I also speculate they are forcing ads past adblock. Anyone notice how every time you go to a different page on the site, you're redirected to another link for a split second before reaching your destination? I'm no expert but that may have something to do with it, as before, when adblock was blocking ads on the site (I used adblock back then also since there were bad ads at the time), I was never getting that redirect. Even if it's not related though, it's still pretty shady. What's the purpose of that redirect?

Nonetheless, I understand that they need ads for revenue, as do most sites, but the way Outpost is handling their ad problem right now, it is pretty poor. If things change and improve then I'll come back to trading on Outpost, but right now, even if it's less popular, I'm heading to bazaar.tf.