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Can we opt out of the sounds on adverts?

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cozietoesie · 13/11/2014 21:52

Twice today, I've been having a deliberately quiet laptop session when suddenly I've had noisy MN advert soundtracks start going - very disconcerting and definitely unwanted. Is there a way to opt out of the soundtracks?

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cozietoesie · 14/11/2014 15:56

Just happened 4 times - 1 Nicotinelle advert and 3 ebay ones. Here's a screenshot.

Can we opt out of the sounds on adverts?
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RocknRollNerd · 14/11/2014 15:41

Also I couldn't see any x to click to shut it down, I muted sound and then closed the tabs.

RocknRollNerd · 14/11/2014 15:40

There is a Lego Minecraft ad which has appeared twice over the window - I think it came from this thread which you've just zapped.

It's a layover one so you get the lego covering about the top 1/3 of the screen. It is massively intrusive and very loud!

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cozietoesie · 14/11/2014 15:32

Thanks for that Kate. It hasn't happened to me so far today but yesterday's occurrences were to do with an ebay advert and an ad which involved an orangutan and a song about love. (You can see how much impact the latter had on me.) Both were in the ad box on the right hand side just below the 'Mumsnet Talk' box.

I'll take a screenshot if it happens again.

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KateSMumsnet · 14/11/2014 14:30

Gah! Sorry folks - ads SHOULDN'T be playing sound at you. Can you tell us where you saw the ad, or what is was of, or even better, post a screen shot on this thread, and we'll hunt the blighter down and sort it out.

chemenger · 14/11/2014 13:20

Just happened again. That's it for Mumsnet for today. Very very intrusive and misses the point that people may be at work, or have(this being MUMSnet) a child they don't want to disturb. How hard is it to have all ads default to silent? I killed the sound on the ad (Ebay?) once only to have it restart with the sound on again. Really, really irritating. I'm reporting this post to see if we get a response. I need my speakers on for other things so muting my laptop is not an option.

BirdhouseInYourSoul · 14/11/2014 13:15

I asked about this a while ago when a bloody sky advert kept making me jump about 10 feet in the air.

Never got a reply though.

It is incredibly annoying though. Very intrusive - especially for a parenting site where a large amount of users are probably stealing some time online during naps.

I bet if you started a thread asking "hands up who has a sleeping child within 2 feet of them RIGHT NOW" you'd get a huge response :o

chemenger · 14/11/2014 13:12

Totally agree, this is one of my pet hates. I just abandoned Mumsnet several times yesterday the instant the cacophony started.

2rebecca · 13/11/2014 22:30

Strongly agree. I shut down other things until I realised it was mumsnet. It is really horrible and definitely doesn't make me want to do anything except turn off the horrid noise asap

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cozietoesie · 13/11/2014 21:59

Make that four times now - and when the ad starts playing, there's nothing you can do other than leave that board or go out of the browser - the cursors won't work inside the advert box to zap the volume. (Well they wouldn't for me.)

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