For the love of the wee man please do something about the ads

Is this the user experience that you are aiming for @justinemumsnet?
I for one am thoroughly fed up with the adverts.
It seems that you are now running the site for the benefit of the advertisers rather than the users.
Mumsnet is draining my battery and my data allowance for the benefit of whom? It's certainly not me!

Linleys and to think it less people post MN will have less product to sell

That's it.

No more coming on here on my laptop. Can't concentrate on anything. There's so much movement on the page my tired brain has had enough.

I'll be back on phone only for as long as it's usable.

Can't read the site properly any more :(

There are so many adverts on every page, bar this one, that it's hard to see the threads and all the adverts are distracting and annoying. I most definitely won't buy any of them, even if I did by chance read a name.

Jesus that's shit, Gin.

When you think we write all the most read content, too ...

Considering I'm hardly ever out of wifi zone and only flick through Mumsnet when out using data, this should not be happening!

The wrap-around ads (the ones that run up the sides and across the top) are incredibly slow to load and make the thread almost impossible to scroll through - there's another thread in Site Stuff about jerky threads. Tonight's Mitsubishi ad is particularly bad, and I've abondoned several threads as it's awful trying to scroll down.

It's getting to the point where I'm not going to use MN when I'm off wifi as my data usage is going through the roof. Also interested to hear that people are mentioning battery issues as well, I thought my tablet and (new) phone were knackered!

I don't mind the narrow horizontal bar at the top, except that sometimes I have a day when it continuously crashes/hangs my browser while loading adverts. Other people have also mentioned this in this thread so there's definitely a real issue going on here. I use the mobile site on an android phone with Chrome.

I'm pretty sure all advertisers would love all the pages to be 100% ads and nothing else, but if you dont start catering more to your actual users then there will be no-one left to advertise to!

If they dont like it then tell them to do one, the site is surely big and active enough that you are not struggling to find adverts.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a lot of pressure from advertisers to increase the view-ability of their ads"? There is an advert anchored at the top on mobiles so will have a very high viewability.

I don't think you can compare
Advertising on a message board to the guardian with an article that is written by a professional journalist that goes to a great deal of effort to research, interview, fact check and create a quality piece of work. Apples and pears.

Bearfrills that is truly disgusting. Obviously the advertising is picking up on words in the thread.

Thanks, Justine.

JustineMN - Reddit has the same AdChoices thingies but they are confined to a side bar on the right hand side. I notice them (partly because I am intrigued by which bits of my browsing history make it into the ads) and they are easy to click on if it's something I am interested in, but they are very unobtrusive when reading threads

The Telegraph also works quite well, with links at the bottom of the page and occasional ads in the middle of a long article, though you sometimes have to look closely at which ones are ads and which are articles

Downloaded Crystal.

Thanks whoever recommended it!

Further inappropriate advertising.

Threads about the terror attack on Manchester with an advert right in the centre of the thread inviting people to book tickets for various arena shows. Bit like selling Mother's Day cards outside an orphanage.

Why should MN cost me money in data?
Please for the love of all that's made of chocolate, have a rethink.

MN are risking:

• Potential users bouncing because the site is spammy, ugly and cluttered.

• Current users flouncing because of all the extra ads and the attitude of MNHQ.

• Decreased use of the site because of annoyance and data use.

• Increased use of AdBlock, which means they aren't getting ad revenue and not is any other site that the user used e.g. Little blogs.

You've got to wonder if it's worth it. There must be a point where are won't make anymore from plastering the pages with ads.

The verticals are back today and won't go! I keep forgetting to use the adblocker browser for MN.

Would be unethical to ask users for money seeing how much mn makes from their deals with other companies imo.

I think like a pp they maybe trying to sell the site...

I also object to the data used due to ads

I do not want the vertical ads at all. They are incredibly frustrating, boardering on unbearable and make mumsnet impossible to read.

The mid horizontal ads are also annoying but to a much lesser extent.

It is almost impossible to use Mumsnet on my phone now.constantly freezing,reloading etc
Please sort it out
thank you

The data issues are massive for me, and the sole reason I am currently looking at ad blockers - I don't mind the ads, I concur with the just scroll past, they don't impinge on me. BUT the data they use compared to an almost plain text site is immense.

I never get any ads. I'm on iPhone and iPad and am not particularly tech savvy so I don't think I've done anything to block ads but, as I said, I never see any ads.

The data issues are not negligible: MN shouldn't be costing users money!