Ad videos playing in threads and can't be closed down

I am getting this happen too music playing on ads I cant shut down without closing MN. Its on ipad and chrome. Plus screen splitting with massive ads in the middle making it very difficult to read threads.

Christ on a bike this is shit.
I maintain that 'tech' is someone's teenage son working out of their bedroom.

No I'm not telling you which thread, which OS, which browser, which knickers I'm wearing today.

Now that Google have finished rolling out their Page Experience Update, MNHQ may find that this kind of thing buggers up their search rankings a bit.

@HerbalGerbil

You might find it worth trying Ghostery or Brave browsers for mobile device which make blocking ads/unwanted content a lot easier.

Its reasonable to use ads to operate a "free" to use service but this kind of intrusive advertising is something I'd block.

It's so, so annoying and puts me off using the site. This has been raised before and it's never sorted. Like many ongoing site issues MNHQ will pretend to look into it and hope the complaints go away without them doing anything. Static pictures are one thing but intrusive video advertisements are quite another.

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This for me just now. Huge adverts. I can sometimes not see all of the initial post. This is using an iPad and safari

This is still happening, there's a dog in thr house Song, playing with no indication of how to stop it on the page or what ad it is coming from. Autoplaying sound ads are awful and will push me into ad blocker.

And this. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/thirty_days_only/4355985-How-would-you-manage-this-person IPhone 7 with Safari.

Another one earlier.

Google Pixel using Chrome.

I have tried it on chrome but all the other ads still come through instead.

I tried adblocker but Mumsnet appears to totally block access if using one. Tried chrome, duckduckgo and opera...nothing but a blank screen.

It's a shame because I love Mumsnet and nearly every viper on here but I can't justify the cost any more than occasionally now.

Used to be able to browse here for hours for way under 100MB a day. Really took my mind off my constant chronic pain but I guess that's tough shit as I am too poor to be here now.

This is a photo using my mobile of the graph.

I can not screenshot it.

All other spikes are quite heavy YouTube watching.

Blanks spaces, times when tablet was not in use.

The line across denotes the 100MB mark.

The last two prior to 6pm

All Mumsnet.

HebalGerbil, what might work is searching how to block JavaScript on your tablet & browser. With JavaScript not working the ads shouldn’t be able to run.

I would show technically as a WiFi connection.

It is not actually WiFi, as in unlimited data.

It is a WiFi device with a sim card.

I pay £44 for 30GB of data over 90 days.

You're video ads are using up to 150MB an hour.
This is confirmed by a data counting app.

I have been using duckduckgo on Android so I can afford to use the internet at all. It used to block extraneous content.

Your site has found a way round it and I am now getting super data heavy video advertising.

You're not making ad revenue, you are taking MY money. I would have to put a very large amount more on the PAYG sim to be able to use your site now, even if only a couple of hours per day.

I am broke.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS WORD?
BROKE!
That means I can't buy anything you are trying to ram down my throat while eating my data.

You are using way more data than any web site is entitled to demand as recompense for providing content.

I can not afford to use your site any more.

And yes it is your site. My tablet is configured to block all app internet access and is placed on plane mode between browsing sessions. The graph on my data manager shows 100-150MB spikes only when using your site.

You are using more data than an entire hour of solid YouTube. I've tested it.

22 pence of my data per hour.

Loud music blaring out as I'm scrolling through a thread is extremely annoying, been happening all day on here. I'm using Chrome.

Sorry, @MNHQ, but issues such as are being reported about ads right now is why so many of us choose to ad-block your site. When I access MN using chome on my Samsung tablet, I realise how bad it is (because they took away the option of ad-blocker for android/chrome a couple of years ago, and I don't always rememember to log in using the ad-block browser). But if I'm on my laptop, which has ad-blocker for chrome on it, it's bliss.

By the way, for those of us using an ad-blocker on a laptop, why do we still have that banner across the bottom of the page with the yellow triangle saying 'You are seeing this message because of script blocking softway is interfering with this page. Disable any ad or script blocking software, then reload this page'

Firstly, it's not even 'Please consider disabling...', it's written as a command (not cool). And secondly, I use an ad-blocker as a default across all websites, so no - I'm not going to disable it. Ever. And I know I'm not the only PP who thinks this, or has told you this. So please just take the banner away, or give us an option to say 'Seen, read, acknowledged, but not going to change my mind'. So it's not there at the bottom of the page All. The. Time.

If anything, seeing that flipping banner every single time I log on to MN just makes me more determined to never disable my ad-blocker! Which I'm pretty sure isn't the response you want from us!

This is still happening with me, just did on a thread I was on and some song started blaring from an advert. Awful.

They were giving me The Rage so I downloaded AdBlocker (sorry MNHQ you drove me to it).

Problem sorted.

What is the point of these adverts? They must be the least directed advertising in the universe. I've seen that frying pan of red peppers and the revolting pot of poo with sawdust on top umpteen times, but still have no idea what it is an advert for. I'm vaguely aware that the word "weaning" appears somewhere. I've never felt even the slightest stirring of an urge to click through. Was this advertising campaign designed by rejects from The Apprentice?

Really annoying!

I've had the same. My phone was linked to the Bluetooth in the car and it scared the crap out of me!

@soniamumsnet
No video will play once the player is out of view

I experienced adverts blasting out music (!?) even tho they were scrolled out of sight.