Very annoying pop up videos

If they are working as they are supposed to then how come I have never experienced them before on my iPad until now?
Plus the “mini” screen one appearing down the right hand margin.

I’ve just downloaded free AdGuard from iPad App Store , and so far seems to work as just logged back onto GN and the pop up adverts are no more . ( hopefully will stay that way ! ) .

Yes I’ve just noticed past couple days they popping up on GN on my iPad , very annoying, but these annoying advertisements also pop in everything you read online , I try my best to ignore them but it’s very frustrating.

mumski

Totally agree with the comments. I had managed on my old computer to block them. However, with my new computer I bought last week I've not been able to get rid of the irritating things. Has anyone managed to download an Ad blocker which works?

I have downloaded Brave.com and now use it as my default browser.
It works with Android, Windows and Apple operating systems and blocks all this pop-up rubbish. If I revert to using Chrome, the junk reappears.

I've just realised that I don't have the problem of annoying pop-up ads when I use my android phone to read GN threads. I see blank sections with 'Advertisement' as a heading - easily ignored. It's my iPad that is showing the intrusive ads.

How strange Fanny they ve only started on my iPads etc a few days ago

Yes it does Farnorth but don’t you find it irritating when you’re reading someone’s post and up pops this huge advert taking up the whole area
Anyway I don’t want to know how to breastfeed ta

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I don't mind them appearing in the middle like that Blue Belle but it's dawned on me that if I move past one of those it then appears in a smaller version in front of the posts.

They started appearing on my iPad a few days ago. I’ve downloaded a free ad blocker from the Apple App Store, Ad Block One. It has solved the problem without any unwanted additions.

Strangely I don’t get them on my iPad.

I was obviously too smug, they’ve started appearing in my iPad this week accompanied by a mini duplicate in the bottom right corner! 😠

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

BlueBelle

HQ lilygransnet we didn’t get them at all on iPad iPhones until a couple of days ago now they are majorly difficult
Because theymove and suddenly pop up in the middle of someone’s post
It’s not the content I don’t read them anyway _it’s the huge intrusiveness_

BB I’ve had them in my iPhone for months.
So that’s a bit odd

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

Here’s one for you * Lilygransnet*
Helping me with my morning sickness

If someone from HQ just signed up temporarily as a poster they would see them without having to ask us anything

HQ lilygransnet we didn’t get them at all on iPad iPhones until a couple of days ago now they are majorly difficult
Because theymove and suddenly pop up in the middle of someone’s post
It’s not the content I don’t read them anyway it’s the huge intrusiveness

LilyGransnet

Hi all

I promise we do - it's just that sometimes we don't know if the ad is coming from our ad team or our content team. So we need to see it to know.

You can email screenshots over to [email protected]

Great.
That'll keep us all busy. 😐

Just try using GN for a few minutes and you'll see them. Like this one - a video without sound so achieving nothing.

Why not just tell all relevant departments that whatever ads they are putting on here are simply an annoyance?

The point really isn't the subject matter, it's the intrusiveness.

Here’s one

Pointless anyway, as there’s no sound.

if you use firefox
go to add ons and search ad blockers

See also ‘Birth Plans’

Just a little message to your Content Team, Lily.

Breast feeding?
Really?

Blinko Do GNHQ never actually look at these sites?

I have tried to take a screenshot but unfortunately it comes with my real name attached and I am not prepared to do that on an open forum. Perhaps someone else will be able to do it. Bearing in mind one screenshot is not enough really as I think most of us are fed up with the pop ups generally, not just one specific video as they are mostly irrelevant to us as a demographic group.