2 huge advert down the side of my screen, they're huge and annoying

I, too, understand about ads bringing in revenue, it's a necessary evil. But if I were paying for ad space, I'd refuse to pay for that. I'd expect a better standard from an internationally-renowned website.

came on to start a thread about this. I don't spend much time in Good Housekeeping as the slutty state of my house would show, but when I visited this morning the Karcher ad made me feel seasick. Appreciate you need ad revenue, but could you avoid wriggly ones please?

If you could just get the ad moving at all it would be a help. it has a 5sec ish flip over rate which is like a distracting pulse of image and tbh I would question how that would be for epileptics too. Horrific for migraine suffers.

I don't have a problem with ads on MN and realise that the revenue is needed but in the 8 years I have been here I have never seen an ad like this.
It is all-consuming, badly laid out, moves differently on the left and right and is the only thing on this site that has ever set off my visual aura. Surely it can be altered if it has to be there until 31st May - just stopping it moving would help.

The Windows laptop with Chrome also has the ad present but no problems posting.

No, but that is only since I installed Adblocker.

From yesterday afternoon until this morning I tried to post to the Flylady thread several times via Safari on a Mac and that was how it was every time. I installed Adblocker an hour or so ago and it is fine now.

I have now moved over to a Windows laptop using IE and no Adblocker (yet!) and have been able to post to the thread but the ad is still very annoying.

Can you just keep them to Aibu. The world would be a more peaceful place if people cant read Aibu properly.

Or descend to an all out war, as people are so annoyed. Could be fun. Olivia would have to be on double "peace and love " duty.

Rotating ads down the side of posts makes the posts impossible to read! Too distracting.

It's not so much the advert for me Helen as the fact that nothing appeared below the last post on the thread, no add your message here box, no smileys, no shortcuts. I could only post from my Ipad.

Bit of an own goal if it leads to an epidemic of MNers installing adblockers.

Was it only on that thread or all Good Housekeeping threads?

Helen - I have blocked it now, so I'm happy, but I could not have put up with it until the end of May.

I understand about needing revenue, but, in this case, you can't read the ad because it's split across the screen and it's back to front, so it's not a very good ad anyway unless it is a clever way to imprint the name 'Karcher' on our brains forever, which has worked on me.

Gawd! Its truly awful.

Looks like Good Housekeeping's going to be a bit quiet until the end of May, then!

(Goes to lie down with the beginning of migrane...)

Only on the Fledgling Flylady thread for me, but I'm not on any other GH ones at the moment. Not seen it on Telly addicts or Prolapses.....

I've just installed Adblock on Safari and got rid of it.

Link to Adblock Plus is here. It has blocked the ads on Firefox for me .

Only encountered it in Good Housekeeping and I was wandering all over the site far too late last night

Oh, just clicked on active convos and the grey scroll bar on the lhs of the list that appeared in housekeeping topic before the advert appeared seems to have appear there.

I only view 3 specific threads. I have not encountered it in Adult fiction, Big slim whatever diet or this topic. It appears to be all over the housekeeping topic. Can't comment on other topics though. I don't use most of mn these days.

HQ any news on this issue?

As much as it is possible to block the adverts that wouldn't solve the change of page format that is associated. Which is as equally annoying but not migraine inducing. WHY has this happened because it blocks out all of the normal links on the side panel that are normally there making it harder to navigate around the site from the pages affected by this high rate changing advert.

Yes, but it is odd that I never normally have any problems with adverts, I don't really mind them and just ignore but and this one has come along and caused really strange behaviour.

Ladies, you do realise you can block all ads on both Firefox and Safari, don't you?