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TalkinBoutWhat · 23/10/2017 13:17

MN, PLEASE fix this advertising bar at the top of the computer screen.

It is so large, that I can't actually click on any of the MN links that are at the top of the page. (eg, active, I'm on, etc).

Right now, on Site Stuff, I can't even click 'Site Stuff' to get other threads in this section. It's hidden by the ad, which is NOT scrolling up and away the way I've seen others do. It's just sitting there. The ONLY threads I can get onto are the active ones on the right hand side of the screen, and only the ones lower down the list as the top ones are hidden by the Ad. (Experian and Marks and Spencers, are the two so far....)

You did this before, we all complained, you apologised and said it shouldn't have been loaded on as you were testing something new. I really hope this was a mistake, because it is IMPOSSIBLE to navigate the site.

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Laiste · 24/10/2017 09:13

adblockplus.org/

This is the one i use. I'm on firefox, laptop.

I've also got uBlock

www.ublock.org/

Tinycitrus · 24/10/2017 08:57

How do I ad block?

DressedCrab · 24/10/2017 08:51

Never bothered with adbolock before but will now as they slow it down so much. Recommendations?

PhilODox · 24/10/2017 08:40

This is just going to increase the number of MNers that install and use adblockers. These adverts eat up all my data allowance on my phone- so I'll just stop visiting MN.

Laiste · 24/10/2017 08:34

May i add this link again. At the mo a lovely poster is trying to show how to block the big white bar.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3067860-What-is-this-join-our-whitelist-thing-which-keeps-trying-to-load-on-every-page-of-MN?msgid=72857406#72857406

Laiste · 24/10/2017 08:28

Firefox here btw.

Laiste · 24/10/2017 08:27

madhugger i've learned that the whitelist is a list of sites that you can put on any advert blockers. It will then 'allow' ads to appear on sites on that list.

What you're having is the same as me - it's the big blank space where the ad would have been asking you to let ads in. For me it covers the top third of the page and slows my computer down while it's spinny thing spins.

Others have not got the ad blocker and are having the ad itself blocking the page.

bookbook · 24/10/2017 08:12

Same happening here still today - it opens up, covering the OP post etc, and then shrinks back . Really annoying . I don't use an ad blocker, but may have to start .
Macbook and Chrome

ginjin · 24/10/2017 08:10

I'm having a slightly different issue in that the bottom ad before the comment box isn't aligned properly, so is messing up how to view the entire page. Using safari on iPhone 5s

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TheMaddHugger · 24/10/2017 08:08

Sorry. It's Tuesday evening here. I've had this problem all day, so closed page and net surfed other sites [not MN]

I just came back on and it's still a problem. I use chrome on my laptop. It's says add to the whitelist... whatever that is

I cannot screen shot

FaFoutis · 24/10/2017 07:28

It is awful. half the screen obscured most of the time. I'm off until it goes away.

Laiste · 24/10/2017 07:14

Bloody hell it's still there Angry

SecretSmellies · 24/10/2017 06:03

still happening for me- on firefox. It's driving me mad. I spent ages rebooting my computer last night thinking it was me.

ToadTheVampireThreadKiller · 23/10/2017 23:44

Yep, I am not going to use John Lewis, even if you paid me so I don't need an ad for it taking over my screen. Replacing it with a white space, a rotating thing and a couple of lines of text that take ages to shrink isn't helping either, it is STILL THERE so I am off.

bibblebobblebubble · 23/10/2017 23:03

Macbook and Safari. Driving me nuts. Mumsnet get rid of these awful ads, they are making the site unusable.

Phantomoutforthechill · 23/10/2017 22:39

And the really annoying thing is that you have to scroll back up to see the message. I'm on a laptop on Chrome.

Phantomoutforthechill · 23/10/2017 22:37

Oh it did work first time.

Phantomoutforthechill · 23/10/2017 22:36

Sorry

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Phantomoutforthechill · 23/10/2017 22:36

This is what I am getting every time I try to refresh the page, just before the ad. Then the ad, then it shrinks.

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JWrecks · 23/10/2017 22:30

Yeah, it's really unbearable. As in, I cannot bear it. As in, I won't be using it. :(

I understand the need to advertise, believe me I do, but I do not understand the need to advertise so intrusively that you literally chase away the eyes that would see the ads.

GhostlySteamTrainsandSkeletons · 23/10/2017 22:25

I use Firefox (with adblocker) and get the same as Pencilsinspace.

TwitterQueen1 · 23/10/2017 22:19

Every fucking time the page is refreshed.... It's a NO from me. Really. I'm off if you don't fix this.

TwitterQueen1 · 23/10/2017 22:19

It's driving me mad MN! Sort it out please! Yes it shrinks back but how does that help?

Seriously going off this site. It's just shite.

mapie · 23/10/2017 22:15

It's driving me potty, at least I'll have an early night.

Youcanstayundermyumbrella · 23/10/2017 22:08

Headless that's exactly what I've got.

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