The site is driving me mad!

The piece of paper has to move with the advert so my clever trick doesn’t work very well.

Still these blasted LARGE adverts in the middle of threads. Does anyone believe HQ will stop them ?

I now have a page from a notebook which I put over the offending ad.

It’s driving me bonkers. 🤪

Contact GNHQ through Twitter. May get more response?

Ailidh yes, that’s what I get.

Farzanah

You wouldn’t get used to these FannyC. They are silent videos interrupting threads. They have returned on my iPad and I’ve told GNHQ that I’m leaving. I think they have a bug which is showing up on iPads.

Oh, okay.
I do get the ones in the middle of threads, and the little ones, right on top of where you want to type your reply.
I’m on my iPhone

This is the one I get in most threads, every day, every time I check.

Delila

I saw Lily’s response on here, but she said this is a trial - has a decision been made since then to make it permanent? You seem to know the latest FannyCornforth.

I think that she was being tactful, shall we say!

I don’t get any on my iPad either.

Just this on my iPad today, don’t get any moving adverts at all..

I saw Lily’s response on here, but she said this is a trial - has a decision been made since then to make it permanent? You seem to know the latest FannyCornforth.

You wouldn’t get used to these FannyC. They are silent videos interrupting threads. They have returned on my iPad and I’ve told GNHQ that I’m leaving. I think they have a bug which is showing up on iPads.

Delila

Perhaps GNHQ haven’t read this thread?

They have.
And responded to it.
The ads are here to stay.
I’m not a fan, but I’ve got used to them, I must admit.

Perhaps GNHQ haven’t read this thread?

I had a reply to my complaint from Lily at Gransnet. She said they’d had a look at the ads in question and they were satisfied that they’re “appearing as intended”, but she’ll pass my feedback on to the ads team.

The ads are videos with no apparent means of switching them off. Today I’ve been welcomed to Morocco among other things, and the ads seem to be endorsed by Mumsnet & Unilever. No sound (one small mercy).

This happens now and again to me on the laptop. I find it doesn't matter too much if it's a straight answer to a straight question but for limericks when one needs to repeat the last few lines on the previous post it's really annoying.

Theexwife

The only way to get rid of reads is to pay for membership, this is a business not a cosy group staffed by volunteers.

Then they ll lose everybody, so lose lose situation

If you click to get rid of the little ones in the corner they then pop up big in the middle of someone’s post 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I thought I’d got rid of the small ones that pop up in the bottom right corner but they’re now back. I find them more irritating than the bigger ones as you scroll down the page.

HATE HATE these pointless adds. Totally ignore them. Wouldn’t be able to tell you what any of them are.

Do any of us actually read any of these ads? They seem pretty pointless if we’re all just scrolling past them, especially if GNHQ are aware that we do! So what’s the point of them?

Theexwife

The only way to get rid of reads is to pay for membership, this is a business not a cosy group staffed by volunteers.

Mumsnet tried that, and it went down like a lead ballon.
I think that it was about three years ago.

The only way to get rid of reads is to pay for membership, this is a business not a cosy group staffed by volunteers.

How do you click them off NorthFace please as there is not a small x anywhere on the screen of the advert ?

I agree, Doodledog. That does appear to be the case.

And while these videos can be clicked off it is still more clicking which has to be done each time the user moves to a different topic. As well as those forum users who suffer visual disturbance, for a user with impaired hand mobility and/or someone using assistive technology, that is making the site just that much more difficult for them to use and that's just plain wrong.

Ailidh. As a wearer of varifocal lenses (and expensive ones at that) I find pop ups in the corners of screens cause me visual disturbance. Some tabloid newspaper sites are particularly bad for this so I avoid them.

It comes back to one of the absolute fundaments of web design. Who is the user likely to be, what are their needs and what can we do to make the site as easy as possible to use?

I don't mind the little one that pops up bottom right, ironically the one you can close. In fact, I'd probably read some of them. The big ones that interrupt a thread just make me move on, or rather, move off GN.

growstuff

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

I don't get them on a laptop (using Safari) but they are harder to block on phones and tablets, which I get the impression most people use to access GN.