How to stop advertisements on Gransnet

I'm not seeing that at all Sparkling does it depend on whether you are using phone,tablet or laptop to access GN.?

I think you need to purchase an ad blocker.
I'm sure this has been discussed before.

I saw that advert of the emancipated girl in jeans. It was awful. I get adverts popping up every time on GN, there’s one on now for Floryday clothes , How can I stop this distracting nuisance , ?

I haven’t got an advert for a woman in torn jeans at all in fact
I ve just got one at the side for m and S but I can’t see it unless I widen the screen
I m using an iPad on mobile

You're not all going to see the same ads because the ads you see are 'personally tailored' for you. In other words, your browser tracks all the websites you visit and online purchases you make and its algorithm comes up with things it 'thinks' you'd be interested in.

For example, I've just read an article about the environmental cost of cheap flatpack furniture. Come here to Gnet and up pops a furniture advert in the sidebar. This is not a coincidence.

Websites make money from people clicking on the adverts...

To stop it you'll need an ad blocker.

Well I've got one for Pampers and I haven't had a baby for 39 years

Well that’s funny Maizie as I don’t shop at MandS and haven’t been looking at anything from them !
They don’t bother me as they are out of my eye contact anyway but it is interesting what people get
I ve now got one for Graze never used them never looked them up

GN is a business. The people who set it up make a living from it.
How do you think they make money? There was a thread a little while ago that discussed whether we should pay to use this site. No one seemed to want to. Just ignore them, the ads I mean.

I suspect that if you don't do much shopping or searching for consumer goods on line the algorithm gets a bit desperate and tries to entice you with something ?

i get fed up with some of them who take up most of the page but as i want to read certain items i just put up with it and if i want the news i just go to bbc as no adverts on there.

maizie I do lots if online shopping got a package yesterday but not with MandS or Banggood which has just come up now with men’s shirts as I don’t have a man and never heard of banggood I m still mystified

have an ad blocker on Chrome, do not see any ads

I’m on my iPad and right now there are no adverts.

I have an ad blocker installed, but have it turned off for Gransnet.

The site needs funding to keep running; Mumsnet are already requesting their users to use a new subscription based project. Gransnet could go the same way!

The ads aren't usually too intrusive, ignore if not interested.

I don't ever see ads on GN mobile site. I can't remember if I blocked them or if they are not on mobile site.

I like to look on Pinterest and often get annoyed when I am trying to read an article of interest, to find adverts continually covering the text I am trying to read! Annoying to say the least. I am a regular user of a word app but have just paid to use it add-free, well worth the money for less frustration!