MASSIVE ADS halfway down the thread page

I wondered why I was so close to my data allowance

It’s awful - no point annoying your core users

Please get rid of them. I can hardly scroll past without accidentally clicking on them, which I find infuriating.

Glad it's not just me. FFS it's more than jarring. It's an insult.
If I want to find out about something on the internet I'm quite capable of doing it all by myself. Thank you but no thank you

Another one here who thought it was something wrong with my browser. I particularly dislike the advert straight after the OP because I immediately assume that’s the end of the thread. Very disorientating and intrusive to break up threads like this
Also you and your advertisers may be interested to know these ads often take so long to load that they just appear to me as a completely blank square. So I have no idea what the ad is for. This is irritating from my perspective as the user who provides the content and from the point of view of the advertiser, worrying because they probably paid a lot of money to advertise on MN.

It's the difficulty you have in trying to scroll past them without opening up the ad that bugs me. Really irritating when the ad opens up and ensures I won't consider buying the product.

Oh THAT’s why I’m suddenly using all my data allowance every month after never getting close before ! Time to get off MN then. Shame.

I hate these. They ruin the site and are definitely NOT an improvement.

Please get rid of them. Return the rules to what they were previously.

Ha, and I just previewed my post and then there was a whacking huge advert between the preview and the post button. Makes the site more difficult to use.

Like a PP, I wondered why there were SO many one-post threads in active before I realised all the responses were under the bloody great ad.

Very, very annoying. Please change it back.

I was actually going to start a thread about this as it’s so bloody annoying.
I don’t want a massive bloody ad right after the Op’s post.
Please HQ rethink this as it’s actually putting me off logging on.

And there’s a banner at the top of the screen too. Really awful, are you that hard up for cash?

I’m seeing them after the OP then at the end of the thread, they’re hideous!! Please remove them

It there seems to be a problem with threads loading since the awful extra ads have appeared too. Photo thumbnails are frequently failing to show as well, just a blank thumbnail there.

I prefer not to use an ad blocker on mn but ffs, I've pretty much reached my limit. The moving ads

Yes, really annoying and I don't read as many threads now due to add, and 'accidentally' clicking on the sodding giant ad. Makes me determined NEVER to use those companies, same for annoying though are on TV or radio - ensures that they will not get my business.

Absolutely awful UX to have ads after first post and be running moving ones on a mobile site. Surely there is a balance between making money and not ruining your baseline product? And if your advertising is going to be so intrusive then you need a premium subscription offer that will offer an ad free experience or you’ll end up losing users completely or your site will be unusable without ad blocker. Neither of which are commercially good options for you.

So all the screenshots of the problem have now vanished? This is just bizarre. What's happening,
@JanineMumsnet ? @MNHQ ?

I've galloped through data the last couple of months because of these moving ads; I'm sick of it, quite frankly.

And these ads in threads? Awful. Talk about ruining the whole damn thing.

I can't even read the first post!

I hate this, so many threads today I've thought there are no replies. it's awful. makes me not want to use mumsnet. if much rather them be half way down a thread.

Not at all suspicious that all of the screenshots are dissappearing

See I’m not alone. But it made me stop reading loads of threads and go off the page/site which is surely not the desired outcome?

I just thought there was an issue with the site as all the threads I clicked on in active looked like they didn’t have any replies!
But no, it was just the huge adverts that herd to only be at the bottom of the page. Not a fan! And definitely don’t look at them they’re so annoying!

Also hating the ads in the middle of threads. Left loads of threads today thinking no one had replied before I realised the ad after the first post was in the way

Agreed, it’s so hard to see whether threads are finished or not.

Hate ads. Never used an ad blocker on my mobile; are they any good?