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Enormous ad banners that you accidentally click on all the time?

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Zancah · 24/04/2021 17:16

I'm on the mobile site on an iPhone 11 (one of the biggest screens!) and these new banners that are triple the depth of the previous/normal ads are the bloody bane of my MN life.
They are damn near impossible to not click on when you're scrolling upwards.

Is that it? You get revenue for clicks so you made it so that I accidentally click on it about 29 times a day??

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MadeForThis · 15/06/2021 18:30

I hate it.

GlitteryFluff · 15/06/2021 17:50

This is doing my head in. It's so annoying when scrolling and accidentally clicking the ad, then having to navigate back to the MN app.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456 · 14/06/2021 23:30

This is annoying again. It's always the stupid cruise advert 😖

BlackeyedSusan · 14/06/2021 20:07

I find it difficult to type in the comment box as it is covered by ad and I can only see one or zero lines of text. Because the top banner comes down and covers it. Can't post as can't see the preview post buttons very well. And they jump and end up hitting search which wipes your typing and is very annoying. I have been spending less time on MN.

winterchills · 14/06/2021 20:03

This happens to me all the time and it drives me insane 😡

BlackeyedSusan · 14/06/2021 19:53

Same here. Takes up the whole available area on screen and nowhere to touch so you can scroll. Piss me off with your ad and I'm not buying the product.

Bromeliad · 12/06/2021 21:14

Me too, constantly opening multiple tabs in my browser when scrolling through the app. So bloody annoying!

Kitchendilemmas · 12/06/2021 21:00

It's driving me insane too. Please sort it out!

NoMoreHGTVPlease · 12/06/2021 20:20

Ridiculous

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Poppytime · 12/06/2021 20:10

This cruise advert is driving me mad too! It's massive and I click on it constantly by mistake. It's really putting me off using the mobile app tbh (and I appreciate some advertising is necessary to keep things free etc, but it never used to be this massive and intrusive, or the same advert over end over)

CheesyChipsOnWembleyWay · 08/05/2021 18:30

This stopped for a week and now it's happening again and doing my head in. It's that cruise advert mostly.

bruffin · 01/05/2021 00:17

Im using the android mobile site and its almost impossible to type on atm. Im typing away and the keyboard disappears because the advert keeps refreshing. i cant even see the advert at the time .

cerealgamechanger · 30/04/2021 23:40

There is no way increasing the ad area to half a screen is going to make for a decent 'MN experience'. I'm out off the gazillion tabs opening from one thread that I've been using MN less than usual. Can't you have the ads as strips as you had before?

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GillBiggeloesHair · 30/04/2021 21:00

Take up half the bloody screen.

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Auntycorruption · 30/04/2021 20:55

Agree it's dreadful on iPhone. Half the screen is an ad. I think making the grey bit bigger will be even worse!

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TimMumsnet · 30/04/2021 14:43

Hi guys, thanks for raising this problem! We did recently increase the size of the banner ads in the iOS app to match the ads we show on Mumsnet web. It's an important change that helps keep the apps free to use, but I appreciate it makes scrolling through posts more awkward.

Some of you mentioned that you're experiencing accidental clicks, which is not good! Adverts tend to work based upon impressions (being shown on the app) rather than clicks, so we have nothing to gain by making anyone accidentally click ads.

One change I could make is extending the height of grey box surrounding the ad a bit, the grey area is not clickable, so may help reduce accidental clicks, although the ad area will obviously be larger. Any thoughts?

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cerealgamechanger · 30/04/2021 14:36

It's still happening @MNHQ. I was redirected to google 5 times just now when reading a thread I'm following.

IsolaPribby · 28/04/2021 17:16

I find this on the mobile site also. And the quantity of ads! There were at least 5 just scrolling through this thread!

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soniamumsnet · 28/04/2021 17:12

Hi @AndreaMarteau @Zancah and others. Just dropping in to update you.

We're going to be looking at solutions to this issue and will be making changes to avoid you clicking on adverts by mistake.

Thanks for your patience. Flowers

AndreaMarteau · 27/04/2021 10:38

Came here to look for this and have accidentally clicked two ads just on this thread 😑 It's really annoying and just makes me less inclined to use whatever they're advertising. In fact, I'd actively avoid it.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456 · 26/04/2021 22:49

Ah I came to site stuff to post exactly this. Constantly accidentally clicking on this huge ad! Glad it's not just me and that you're fixing it MN! Grin

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DawnMumsnet · 26/04/2021 13:35

Just letting you know that we're still looking into this - we'll be back with an update as soon as we can. In the meantime, we're sorry for any inconvenience.

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Zancah · 26/04/2021 12:33

Bumping this because, out of a 20 minute lunch break and quick flick through mn, I've inadvertently pressed the ads eight times. Eight!! - I've just gone and counted how many browsers I had open.

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CheshireCats · 25/04/2021 22:33

They take up too much of the page. I won't ever be buying anything via the ads, so you are wasting your time Mumsnet and making the app less user friendly

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Itis6oclocksomewhere · 25/04/2021 22:26

Same here. It's the Pepperstone ad for me. They're absolutely massive so you can't help clicking on them.
This seemed to happen a few months ago and it stopped. Now it's back and it's worse.
As a PP said, it seems to take you to the site by just hovering a finger over it.