Very annoying pop up videos

At 85, why is there a young mother talking at me about morning sickness? I really don't see the point of all this on GN.
And now it has switched to "Back pain during pregnancy!
Why?

Yes, Henetha, why?
LilyGN, can you please explain the point of these videos?

I wouldn’t mind being flogged stuff that is relevant - but these aren’t adverts or relevant

Exactly FC. I could see the point if they were trying to sell things, as sometimes happens, but all this young mother stuff is just ridiculous. I'm getting quite cross now, which is unusual for placid me!

When we were told that it was a trial, I thought that it was just that and took it at face value.
In that MN were using the videos as a way to see how advertising would work in this medium.

I thought that too. I don't know what we can do about it, other than leave. And I don't want to leave as I really love my daily dose of GN.

Perhaps we will conceive, give birth and breast feed all due to the power of advertising, grans net miracles.

Oh, Henetha, you can’t leave, I won’t let you!
(And you need to let me know about the cat situation please)

I find the responses from HQ unhelpful and I get the feeling they hope we will get used to these inappropriate adverts and stop complaining.

I wonder how many of us boycotting GN it would take for them to stop the Ads.

Don’t hold your breath. 🥱🥱🥱🥱

FannyCornforth

Patsy70

I find them very annoying too. Hopefully, GNHQ will take our views into consideration? Although, of course, they’ll be making money from them!

How can they create revenue? They aren’t advertising anything

Thank youFanny point taken.

I’m incensed by this. I do not want to see videos about breastfeeding, naming your baby, pregnancy ailments etc aimed at people with a questionable IQ’s If this is what I’m going to see now I’m leaving GN.

These ads are all pointless. There’s no sound and I wouldn’t watch them even if there was.
It’s so annoying. Fed up with the mug cake the breastfeeding midwife etc. Should these ads be on mumsnet?

I'm getting a really annoying video of meal preparation. It doesn't even go away when I click on the cross. So irritating. Please do something Gransnet.

The same videos are showing on Mumsnet, also with no sound. Just checked.

Download the free AdGuard app from Apple play store on your iPad as that will get rid of the annoying adverts on here .

Half 3 in the morning and some woman with a mouth full of teeth is telling me about morning sickness. I ask you ?!!!

Please Please get rid of these ads. Totally spoils the whole experience of GN for me and everyone else

Have them o; both my iPad and iPhone, also on my regular pc. It seems that the6 are unavoidable.
The ads are inevitable, but pop up all the time, blocking the item being read?
Please do something about them, or at least mak3 them relevant - and not stairlifts or incontinence pads either…

I’m lucky I think as I seem to have the facility to entirely ignore ads.

They simply make no difference.

By golly!

Baby David and the breastfeeding guru have gone (thank goodness) to be replaced by Gransnetters having makeovers.
I know at least one is still posting, so hello, it's lovely to see you again 😃 👋

Ooh, is this the scone recipe now?

The pop-up videos haven't disappeared but perhaps they're more relevant to us now.

I think many reported it to GNHQ *Callistemon” and I reported it to Mumsnet saying how irrelevant the adverts were to us Grans.
Hopeful actio has been taken 🙏

I think these videos/ ads have been in the pipeline from the beginning (October?)
They just made the MN ones first as they will be more lucrative

These are really old ones!

Callistemon21

These are really old ones!

Oh right. Yes they do look a bit dated.
So they are recycling stuff. Sigh

I remember thinking that the Gransnetter looked lovely before the makeover!
Wonder what she thinks, being recycled 😃

If the videos are necessary to help fund the site then I'm not sure how it works.

Most are very old videos with Gransnetters having makeovers by Gransnet and the other was a Gransnetter's recipe for lemonade scones.

They're not selling us anything, not paid for by outside companies so they are not funding the site?

So what are they for? 🤔
Apart from annoying us.