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Please make it go away!

(33 Posts)
Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:34:21

That awful pop up over there >

What on earth is it supposed to be? "From how to look chic over 50"

CHIC! CHIC! Some very dodgy looking androgynous being wearing a suit and tie with the most awful glasses, (not to mention the eyebrows!) followed by "to advice on 'retired husband syndrome' " with a sort of budget range younger Kiri te Kanawa look-a-like with either very unrealistic dentures or photo shopped teeth.

STOP IT NOW

(Please)

Crafting Fri 25-Sept-15 00:23:16

Ooh so it has. Do you think you scared it off Phoenix ? Whatever you did I'm glad it's gone grin

Anne58 Thu 24-Sept-15 08:23:56

It's gone now grin

Anne58 Thu 24-Sept-15 08:15:26

It's still across the top!

ninathenana Thu 24-Sept-15 08:01:58

It's changed to the health care add now. Katek

Grannyknot Thu 24-Sept-15 07:56:55

Okay, Dame Edna with a wet hair look!

Anne58 Thu 24-Sept-15 07:43:28

I'm not sure that it IS a paid for ad, as it's actually "promoting" GN.

Katek Wed 23-Sept-15 22:52:27

I've just got BMI healthcare ad and GN asking me for my most intimate(!!) thoughts. I feel left out

janerowena Wed 23-Sept-15 22:49:55

All I can say is - I wish you hadn't made me look for it. Because it's nearly my bed-time and now I shall have nightmares. Those glasses are really quite scary on that manwoman.

NanKate Wed 23-Sept-15 22:44:58

How about sticking a post-it sticker over the irritating advert?

Ana Wed 23-Sept-15 22:40:28

They're not going to remove it. It's been paid for.

Crafting Wed 23-Sept-15 22:35:30

I agree it's dreadful. You can't avoid it. Please remove it, pretty please.

loopylou Wed 23-Sept-15 17:31:36

Happily 'Pop up' free here.....don't think I'm missing out grin
For once!

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 23-Sept-15 17:28:42

If too many people download ad-blocks it could be the end of a free internet.

And the end of GN! so if you've got one shhhhhh

Ana Wed 23-Sept-15 16:47:21

Download AdBlockPlus. All ads banished in one fell swoop!

ninathenana Wed 23-Sept-15 16:24:38

It IS on the mobile site. Below the box where you type.

hildajenniJ Wed 23-Sept-15 16:16:29

Just popped over to the desktop site to see what all the fuss is about. Oh dear, I wish I haven't. I'm sticking to the mobile site. It is much quieter, no dodgy women popping up all over the place!

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 15:41:02

With THÀT hair?

Grannyknot Wed 23-Sept-15 15:31:58

This thread is making me grin. My friend's son used to do those ^^ ads for websites (make them or programme them or whatever it is) and he left that job because he said he was too embarrassed to tell people what he did for a living, "because everyone hates those".

I also thought it was Dame Edna.

Indinana Wed 23-Sept-15 15:31:29

Oh yes I can! I just saw it! Up there ^.

I wish I hadn't though wink

Indinana Wed 23-Sept-15 15:30:18

I wish I knew what you were all talking about. I can't see anything like that. Anywhere.

#nobodyeverplayswithme

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 15:12:54

IT'S NOW IN BOTH PLACES AT ONCE!

Pleeeaase HQ, stop it, I'll do anything , give up biscuits, be nice to people who cold call me trying to help me reclaim mis-sold PPI, help a Boy Scout across the street, donate to a charity devoted to saving the lesser spotted stink beetle, just make it go away!!!!!

Lona Wed 23-Sept-15 15:00:01

You don't get that on the mobile site!
#therehastobesomeperk!

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:50:57

I don't think Elton would do that to his eyebrows?

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:49:32

It's up there ^ now! Aaargh!

janeainsworth Wed 23-Sept-15 14:44:32

Agreed!