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If I see that woman doing those exercises and that woman making the scones..once more!!

(52 Posts)
bikergran Sat 29-Apr-23 22:33:37

Ggrrrrrrr... those grrrrrrrrrr videos, we never used to have them. But the repetitiveness is brain washing. So much I may even have to go and make those dam scones! I'm not doing the exercises though !

BlueBelle Sat 29-Apr-23 22:51:44

Drives you up the wall doesn’t it ?

Gingster Sat 29-Apr-23 22:57:23

Same here - it’s driving me mad. 😤

Mollygo Sat 29-Apr-23 23:05:55

Irritating-even though my finger now moves automatically to close them!

Ziplok Sat 29-Apr-23 23:30:28

And here they are again, just to annoy us!
Don’t think many of us are going to be influenced by them either - they are just extremely irritating - change the record, GN & your advertisers - these are so repetitively boring and dull.
We don’t need them and don’t want them, so get rid please, permanently. GN used to run perfectly well before, so why have them now?

eazybee Sun 30-Apr-23 09:16:39

We have complained endlessly to GN and they flatly refuse to remove these obnoxious intrusions; I think they are getting larger whilst the number of posts seems to be shrinking.
Odd, that.

Witzend Sun 30-Apr-23 09:19:56

Not to mention the 2 relatively glam women - with the poor sad ones who’ve been given a makeover. Just a slightly more flattering hairstyle, a smile, and a more flattering skin tone.
I’ve seen more than enough of those, too!

MsSalander Sun 30-Apr-23 09:28:49

Agreed. I dont mind the static adverts as we all know the site needs to make money somehow but please, for the love of god, get rid of the endless, repetitive videos!

nandad Sun 30-Apr-23 09:37:22

Has anyone made the scones?grin

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 30-Apr-23 09:54:34

And the sickly yellow icing. Yuk.

Baggs Sun 30-Apr-23 10:00:14

Yup. Well said, biker.

Elless Sun 30-Apr-23 10:09:41

I don't understand - I don't get any advertising or videos 😕 - not that I'm complaining 🙂

aggie Sun 30-Apr-23 10:13:32

I get the videos on my phone but not my iPad

Oopsadaisy1 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:15:27

I get them in my iPad , it’s a pain.

Mogsmaw Sun 30-Apr-23 10:16:41

I don’t get the purpose of these. The scones and the sticky yellow icing aren’t advertising anything!
I wonder if they are a trial and they are hoping to get advertisers for these spaces. Well, if that’s the case, all they have proved is how annoying we find them so any advertisers will only garner negative publicity.

fiorentina51 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:22:32

I've just realised that I've stopped getting those awful videos on my Samsung tablet. What a relief.

NannyJan53 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:22:46

I always click the videos off straight away, I don't really register what they are about.

Oopsadaisy1 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:38:14

How do you turn them off? I can’t find a way.

There is a little ad playing in the corner that I can turn off but I have the big one between posts.

Juliet27 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:42:29

Ooh I’m so glad I installed Adblock

Millie22 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:45:10

I click on the x as soon as they appear. We appear to be stuck with the irritating things.

Fed up with seeing those three women. Why don't they go for a coffee or something ...

NanaBabs1 Sun 30-Apr-23 10:49:30

As Juliet27 states, the ‘Adblock’ app has very efficiently dealt with them for me. It’s free and simple to install. Also cuts the ads down on Twitter!

henetha Sun 30-Apr-23 10:59:02

They are particularly annoying when they cover where you are trying to type. I cannot understand why they are doing this to us!

Theexwife Sun 30-Apr-23 11:32:31

The fact that so many people notice them enough to know the content means the advertising campaign is working therefore they will not be stopped.

If one person had mentioned them and others had said they had not noticed maybe they would have stopped.

25Avalon Sun 30-Apr-23 11:50:03

I don’t even look at them. I just scroll down very quickly but they are annoying nonetheless out of the corner of my eye. I don’t see an x to switch them off.

Baggs Sun 30-Apr-23 12:52:05

"They are doing this to us" because the people who run this free-to-us site have to be paid so Gransnet the business has to make money somehow.