off-putting adverts

I am SO glad its not just me that it annoys.

Stoopid thing to do to paintings anyway! Sigh.

I can't see it - now I feel deprived. There is no such thing as a free lunch.........

I quite like that one. Who are they doing it for though? Is it for searches on the internet or something more official?

Not that I'd want to do it. Brain numbing or what?!

Love the little gingerbread fellers. The way he takes his tie off to be himself!

I don't even notice them until you tell me about them!

I quite like the gingerbread men, they are sweet, but I haven't clicked to see what it is about, and I do find the painting thing irritating and distracting. Love Alan Bennet

SSSh! Don't tell the advertisers that Syberia!

wotsa Go to the Gransnet home page and you'll find an explanation about tagging the paintings. I don't think it would be especially mind numbing. I can't say that I take much notice of any of the advertisements; I just focus on the forums. I wasn't even aware of gingerbread men.

I had to wait an age to catch Alan Bennet but that paint ad is always there like the gingerbread men but I havent clicked either.

The gingerbread men are mouthwatering and so shouldn't be allowed.

Is it just me that clicks on 'em?!

Little things.........!

What gingerbread men?

Having read the GN newsletter, I now think I know what the painting tagging is about. Seems reasonable to make a database of publicly owned paintings.

But the flashing advert is still so annoying that it has put me off taking part. A still one might have awakened my interest. A flashing one just feels intrusive.

Wamuj I just refuse to click on ANY advertising in the hope that it will stop!!!

I've got a feeling that if the ads stopped, so would the site.

syberia, my feelings too! I've built up a good head of advert immunity over the years as, I daresay, have other people, which is why advertisers are just getting more inventive with their annoyances. I just keep 'out-zooming' the bloody things but it's irritating to have to do that.

Not against adverts, just flashing ones beside what I'm trying to read.

Those ones with the red ties Stansgran. [helpful]

What? Taggers, or grans?

The generally good things, I mean.

Have already started tagging the paintings!! Found it hard to drag myself away from that, too!

I was previously referring to adverts in general, I don't want the advertisers to think that they influence me!

But of course I am glad if the ads on here keep GN going, I would truly be lost without you all now!