Constant intrusive videos

I'd love to know how to get rid of the Debenhams ad that half way down every thread, shows the bottom half of a woman, wearing see a through flesh toned g-string. There should be a way to report ads, surely or say "I don't want to see this?"

I've never looked at that kind of underwear, I do have some nice lace Brazillian pants myself but I don't need any more, nor to see someone's foof in my face when I'm talking about serious subjects or looking for support.

Where’s the edit option gone? Is it not there for 15 mins anymore?

found it

And it how quickly it pops up when you go on or change page.

Agree the x doesn’t work. If it’s there at all.

And that's fine, I don't think anyone disputes the need for the free service to be supported by ads.

What we have an issue is a) how intrusive these pop up videos are and b) that they aren't working the way MN themselves have said they're supposed to. You're supposed to be able to click the 'x' and they stop but they don't, or you can't click the 'x' because it's beneath the scroll bar (Safari on Mac) or not there at all (Safari on iPad).

In the time it's taken me to write this, I'd closed the ad but three more popped up.

Mumsnet have to have advertisments as they get paid for for the advertising space. Its how they can still offer a free space for people to use.
You can pay a fiver a month for premium, which removes the ads. Its much smoother.
I think its worth it tbh. I also do that for my local newspaper as its a pain to navigate the ads.

It makes me think about what websites i use a lot and which im not bothered about.

I havent succumbed to youtube or spotify premium though, as even though the ads make it unpleasant, i dont think its good enough value.
Mumsnet I really do want to support though, as i think they have taken such a lot of flak from the media on our behalf

I've just had to close the same video FIVE times on one page of a thread. I opened another thread and, same video again, another four times. It's just not true to say that if you close a video that will reduce the number you'll see during the session.

I don’t think MNHQ give a hoot about what we think of the constant ads. Even those who have stated how they affect them physically have been ignored.

I’m back to getting the giant ads today after a week of just the annoying drop down ads covering the top of my screen. I assume they think we’ll all eventually buy premium to be able to read ad-free, but I’m never going to pay for a subscription so the options are pit up or leave, I guess. And they know this.

I've been inundated with Glamira ads (cheap jewellery site) for weeks. I don't even like jewellery and if I did, it wouldn't be cheap stuff.

It’s also bloody depressing to have a massive funeral ad showing up every 5 minutes.

Having a half page advert cropping up all the time, so big I can’t see what it’s advertising and no option to get rid of it. (Still on an iPhone, still using chrome, still unwilling to delete cookies because I’ve done that so many times).

MN I think I have a high threshold of tolerance as MN over the years has been such a lifeline, and I’m reluctant to leave, but you’re taking the piss with these constant intrusive ads and apparently doing nothing about them.

Yep re Coop. On my phone earlier, you click skip on top, roll the page and up it pops again

I even find it hard to type on here at times - earlier the message box was jumping around as I was typing and I clicked on several ads I was trying to avoid.

Now there is a full size Coop advert. It flicks onto to screen full size. This is awful Mumsnet.

They are intrusive. I think because they appear instantly thus spoiling my enjoyment of the site. On a small iPhone screen it takes up too much space.

I am on an iPhone and these ads are really bothersome.

I'm getting the video adverts on the corner of the page going full screen - as in, opening a whole new page like when you click on full screen on youtube? It keeps doing it even after you click the x to close it. Not on every page but happened a handful of times. Once was NatWest, the others was a badger? But didn't watch enough to find out what it was advertising.
On a computer, MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1, using Safari.

I'm not getting giant ads but I am just getting pop up ads OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, even if I've clicked 'x' (which I still can't do at all on my iPad so I've stopped using MN on there).

Why can't you just turn them off, MN? The website is full of bloody ads already.

Anyone else getting these new and improved giant pop-up video ads? These just started today for me and won’t click away, only make the page jump about when I try. Sigh.

There is no x on any of my devices. Hence why when they appear I just close mumsnet. Much easier.

none of these ads appear on my iPad, but are driving me potty on my desktop! using Edge...

Fantastic point! Why not check what it would look like across various devices?

No x on my iPad. This ad appears to have a countdown but it sits at 4 for a few seconds then disappears (“skip” appears for an instant before the ad disappears) then a couple of seconds later it reappears and repeats. To add insult to injury there is a large ad for the same thing on the page anyway. No ads have x on them on the iPad (doesn’t anyone at Mumsnet have an iPad they can look at for this. How do you test things on different devices.)

Mine is my laptop using chrome.
There is an x but nothing happens...the ad is super annoying as it's right over the trending list and pops up repeatedly.
On my phone it is in the top corner so not as intrusive and the x works to get rid of it.
Ideally you can stop those ones..I'm not bothered about the others as they can be largely ignored but the pop up ad right over a main bit of the screen is badly thought out and simply a real pain in the arse

All the time I've been reading this thread the Premier Inn ad has been running at the top.
It has no option to skip or close.
And even the ads that do have the x, what's the point, it just gets replaced by another annoying flickering advert.
Like a previous poster, I have vestibular migraines, and the ads trigger my dizziness.
Please @MNHQ listen to what we are saying, without your users you'd have no one to sell advertising to.
Maybe I'm thick but I don't understand why you have no control over who advertises on here, because some of the ads are inappropriate.

Yes - for me it’s in the iPad (using safari) that there is no X to close the ad, only the option to skip.

It’s fine on my iPhone.