Ads on YoungNug

Short version: we do not show ads. There are none anywhere on this site, on any plan, and nothing on this page is a "not yet".

This page exists because "we don't show ads" is a claim, and you are entitled to know what stands behind it.

- No adverts render anywhere on YoungNug — not on the free plan, not on the landing page, not next to your job matches, not anywhere. - No advertising cookies. No third-party cookies. None at all. The only cookies we set are the one that keeps you signed in, the one that keeps the site secure, and the one that remembers your cookie choice. - No ad network runs code on this site. No AdSense, no Google Analytics, no ad tags, no pixels, no fingerprinting. - Nothing about you goes to an advertiser, because there is no advertiser. Not your profile, your grades, your education record, your documents, your applications, or your job searches.

We looked at running ads on the free plan and decided against it. The honest reason is that it would cost you a great deal and earn us almost nothing.

It would earn us roughly nothing. Google pays out only once you have earned £60. At the scale this site realistically launches at, a year of ads would earn somewhere between about £0.24 and £24 — so we would never reach £60, and would be paid literally nothing. One person choosing to pay for a subscription is worth more than ads would be at ten thousand free users.

It would cost you a lot. Ads on a free plan land hardest on the people who cannot pay for the alternative, and because we do not charge under-18s, the free plan is where our youngest users are. Running ads there would mean sending data about teenagers to an advertising company in another country, and rewriting promises we currently make and keep. We were not willing to trade those for £0.

We would rather be honest about the maths than quietly take the deal.

- We will never let an advertiser influence your suitability score, your job ranking, or which jobs you are shown. If we ever show an advert, it will never be able to buy its way into your results. Your score is about you and the job, and nothing else gets a vote. - We will never sell your personal data. Not with your consent, not with an opt-out, not to anyone. That is a permanent commitment, not a current setting. - We will never profile you for advertising.

We are not planning to show ads. If that ever changed, we would not do it quietly. Before a single advert appeared we would:

1. Update our Privacy Policy first, and this page with it — naming exactly who would be involved, what they would receive, and where it would go. We have already promised you this order: policy first, advert second. 2. Ask you again. Everyone would get a fresh cookie choice. Nothing would run on the strength of a choice you made about a different question. 3. Keep it off by default, and keep refusing exactly as easy as accepting. 4. Never show personalised ads to under-18s, and never offer a switch that would let a teenager turn that protection off. 5. Never put an advert next to your Approve or Skip decision, on the page where you pay, or in your document studio.

Refusing would never cost you anything. The free plan would stay exactly as usable.

There is no ad consent to give or withdraw, because there are no ads. The one optional choice we do ask about is whether we may count which features you use, first-party, to improve the product and your job matching. You can change that any time from Cookie choices at the bottom of any page, or in Settings — and turning it off deletes what we already recorded, it does not merely stop the next one.

If you ever see anything on YoungNug that looks like an advert, that is a bug and we want to know: send it to us through Feedback in the app.

See our Privacy Policy for what we collect and why, and our Terms of Use for the rules of the service.

Last updated 14 July 2026. Changelog: first published 14 July 2026, stating the no-ads position and the reasoning behind it.