The site is driving me mad!

Monica raises a very valid point.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the organisation which writes the standards on web design.

The Equalities Act 2010 requires that organisations must make 'reasonable adjustments' to make sure their services are accessible. This is so that people with disabilities are not excluded because of their impairment.

Pause, Stop, Hide is the standard which applies here:

Moving, blinking, scrolling

For any moving, blinking or scrolling information that (1) starts automatically, (2) lasts more than five seconds, and (3) is presented in parallel with other content, there is a mechanism for the user to pause, stop, or hide it unless the movement, blinking, or scrolling is part of an activity where it is essential;

and

Auto-updating

For any auto-updating information that (1) starts automatically and (2) is presented in parallel with other content, there is a mechanism for the user to pause, stop, or hide it or to control the frequency of the update unless the auto-updating is part of an activity where it is essential.

www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/pause-stop-hide.html

Ad blockers are the obvious answer but if you find these are not effective and there is no mechanism to pause, stop or hide these videos then the developers who have made these changes are not applying the standards required by the Equalities Act 2010 and you have a right to make a case that they remove them.

I use a PC to access Gransnet. I don't think I've ever had an ad.

I've never had any problems with Adblock Plus - and it's free, so why not use it?

I have Adblock on my I-pad but this this particular advert is like the Covid virus - it is resistant to everything.

The very large intrusive ads in the middle of posts interrupting reading anything, some of us complaining about, which were appearing on my site, have stopped after complaining to GN. They are not regular pop up ones. Seems to have been affecting mainly iPads.
I am very cross because I have not agree to ads at all on my preferences, and I think something went wrong at GN at the weekend. I’ve never had them before, but won’t tolerate them in the future and would rather unsubscribe.

My AdBlocker is keeping all ads at bay. I have dyspraxia and ads, even just around the text I am reading can make it impossible for me to read it. If the ads contain movement, then I have no alternative than coming out of the site I am on. Too much visual clutter around the text I want to read and it becomes unreadable.

Gransnet has been running for 12 years? without the need for this ‘revenue’ so why is it necessary now?
Surely mumsnet is a better place to pitch them?

I think a lot of people will abandon GN if these annoying adverts in the middle of a thread keep popping up. They are so large too.

They won’t sort it out as it will be revenue for them. The advertisers are wasting their money though, if nobody watches them, and GN will lose money if people leave as a result and their viewing figures fall.

I ve never had them before on my iPad but they are so bad huge flashing ones in the middle of someone’s post makes it totally impossible to read
GRANSNET SORT IT OUT

I don’t get many- probably they think I am too far away. I do get them on my main computer though. They are irrelevant and so far not one of them of any interest whatsoever, just irritating. Certainly not targeted like the ones on Facebook.

I use an iPad and suddenly am finding these annoying ads popping up! So annoying!

Some large adverts keep popping up in the middle of a thread . One for ‘Little Steps’. They are incredibly annoying and distracting. How on earth can you remove them ?

The adverts are obviously here to stay.
Like it or lump it!

And also on each page on a long thread.
I dislike it heartily.

Delila and grannygravy the same for me on an iPad never had any problem suddenly I realise what everyone is on about as they are popping up on every thread

https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202301/medium-682228-78dba8f6-b904-4c1d-84d9-490e97690396.png https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202301/medium-522545-7fbea3c0-f477-4a24-8a37-16ec13f780ee.png https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202301/medium-642933-848e1deb-1e42-4ffa-9671-8b1ab259cf66.png

In the last 2/3 minutes, no room to post more screen shots

Just one static ad for furniture top right..

one of the adverts/videos i get is of someone breastfeeding and tbqh I am hoping never to do that again

They seem to have stopped………..let’s hope permanently.

These were not the usual ads. They were popping up and interfering on the threads. I have an ad blocker. stopped now. They only started on my ipad today and have stopped now.

These adverts have been trialled since October 2022.
Just exactly how long do you need to discuss them?
One appeared last week from Barclays, 2014.

AnnieGransnet, it would be helpful if you would give advance warning of this sort of trial, to save us from trying all sorts of useless tweaks on our devices in an attempt to put right what feels like a problem.

You can’t turn the ad off, it’s extremely annoying

😡

AnnieGransnet

Hi all - thanks for your feedback - we're certainly discussing this at GNHQ. As Lily said on the other thread, this is something we're trialling. You can't click off the advert that appears in the middle of the thread, but you can close the video on the bottom right by clicking the X button.

See quote from GNHQ