"We rely on advertising to keep the lights on ......"

The irony is that I've just installed an adblocker as the adverts were taking over half my laptop screen. They did reduce in size after a few seconds, but still very irritating. So if anyone from MNHQ is reading this, well done on forcing me to do the one thing you didn't want me to do.

Not sure if this will post, I assume my thumbnail will change tomorrow!

So I see the message has changed from the 'lights on' message to one that simply says 'advertisement' while the circle whirls round. Same pop up and same delay - in fact, my browser homepage has icons of the pages I visit most and the MN one has the message at the top of it!

Its only just started and is irritating me to hell!

Maybe it is to do with this

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/top-brands-pull-ads-as-mumsnet-users-turn-the-air-blue-confused-com-bulgari-national-trust-prjv0rlgd

Yeah, enough with the twee girlishness. We are adults yanno.

I'd rather pay £1 a week than have adverts

The problem for MN is that people say this but - in reality - they don't pay. Even huge media organisations like Murdoch's with lots of professionally written content struggle to make paywalls viable. There is no way that any general forum like MN would be able to do so, which is why there is no MN-like site that charges.

So I don't have a problem with the ads because I'd rather have MN than not have it. What I do hate is the toe-curling tweeness of 'keep the lights on' and MN's endless attempts to portray itself as a group of girlish amateurs in bobbly cardigans, running the site from Justine's garage. It's so fucking patronising - how stupid do you think we are?

I always use the mobile site on my desktop. Fewer adverts and none of those huge ones at the sides.

I have just changed to a different ad blocker and the bloody thing is still slowing down the page, the whitelist message that is.

Stuff it, I am off.

I'd rather pay £1 a week than have adverts

Me too. I understand that 'the internet' has to be paid for but I'm really sick of the intrusiveness now. The recent change to Mumsnet where well over half the screen is now adverts that just flash in and out is ridiculous.

The same for how you now can't browse a lot of online news sites without answering a survey.

If a subscription model came out where you paid a fixed fee for advert free internet access, I would be straight on it. I don't look at any of the adverts anyway and have probably never intentionally clicked on one or bought anything based on seeing an advert because 90% of them are so misleading that whatever they appear to be advertising is nothing of the sort when you look into it.

Ah fuck that I'm keeping it on

AdalindSchade Yup, they are.

I turned on ad blocker after they introduced the massive ads at the bottom of every thread on the mobile site. Can anyone tell me if they are still there?

Well this sucks....

And because some of the ads which come up contain malware.

Yes, have to say that Mumsnet's ads did (in the past, anyway) seem to trigger a disproportionately high number of threat alerts from my antivirus, before I started using an ad-blocker on the site.

I use an adblocker to block the silly floaty bar thing, can't bear floaty bars. And because some of the ads which come up contain malware.

Sorry. Would love to whitelist otherwise.

I use an adblocker on here because the ads make loading so slow and they take up so much room.

The current whitelist begging message is doing the same thing. It is not going to help the situation, it is just slowing the site down.

If the adverts weren't so garish, distracting and hideous then I would not use adblocker.

MNHQ have made many people resort to adblocker by greedily squeezing in as many garish ads as possible. If they toned it back a bit it would be ok.

I'm having this wide banner every time I go to a new page. I don't have an ad blocker but it's so intrusive and annoying that it's encouraging me to find one.

Without an adblocker I find mn too difficult to use. But that message makes me laugh. I find it disingenuous to claim that they use ads purely to "keep the lights on" when in reality it's also about making profit. Not that I have a problem with that, just wish they were honest about it.

I have AdBlocker off for MN, except today when I enabled it because the big giant drop down screen-blocking ads were pissing me off so much. At one point (Chrome, desktop) half the page of a thread was obscured. It's a complete pain in the arse.

That's like what the guardian has on its site. I'd be happy with a sub to weed out the bloody trolls, gas lighters and bots.

I've had this message today but I do use an ad blocker. I get similar messages from newspapers as well. Seems to be standard practice tbh, which is probably fair enough even if it is irritating.

I struggled to read the site at all earlier as a giant advert obscured the whole page. Seems OK now on my tablet.