Constant intrusive videos

Please tell me which one!! It’s driving me mad too.

Download the Duck Duck Go extension for Chrome. 10 seconds and all the stuff that makes the site unusable for people who have disabilities relating to sight disappear.

I just had a PayPal video hijack my full phone screen while I was in the middle of typing a reply to a post. Around 5 am this morning.

MN, this was reminiscent to the McAfee spam ads recently. But it didn’t redirect to a new URL. Still, it was an entire page video ad while I was mid message.

I got rid of the annoying adverts by subscribing!!

Its a good site. I use it a lot. They need to pay their staff etc. Its worth it.

I'm getting pop up video ads covering banner ads and part of the (small) screen on my iphone 12 mini. I'm getting pop ups on my macbook air that won't fuck off when I click the X, they're like zombie pop ups that want to eat my brains and just won't stay X'd.

When the video ad. is there I can’t do anything.. makes me click offf mn

Safari, iPhone, and they’re bloody constant. Why no response to this thread Mumsnet?

The Felix one makes scrolling impossible. MN don't care. As long as they get their money 🤷

I keep finding that posts don't post, then suddenly there's duplicates, too.

It’s not as bad on safari on the iPad as it’s just in the top right corner, but it’s dreadful on the iPhone.

Mine is a box and two lines - I have the latest iPhone and updates.

I click on that to get the remove distracting items option. As I have already explained in response to someone asking.

I'm using mn less and less too, it's not an enjoyable experience. There's the video ads, other ads, the page constantly reloading, bookmarks not working, the "back to top of page" arrow not working first time, generally slow to load etc. Also my phone gets hot while using mn (although tbf it is fairly old).

All the people who can actually do something are off for the weekend and bank holiday Monday.

I clearly remember when we had someone posting images of child abuse on here there was one poor night mod trying to deal with the whole thing with almost no powers.

Flipping awful, how is this in any way useable?

I am the same.... chrome/laptop and no I can't stop them.

Has anyone found a way to stop these on Chrome on a laptop? Driving me nuts.

I spoke too soon. They are back. 😡

These new ads also seem to be making my laptop run hotter than usual. Safari on a MacBook. This then drains the battery quicker. Have had similar issues when using the app on iPhone over the last couple of months, although it now seems to have been resolved on the phone.

I reported a couple of weeks back that MN is currently crashing one of my laptops.. to the point i have to force restart.. it pushed it through a disk check the other day and did something where i thought it had broken my machine.

The only difference between the two is one machine is a workhorse for Office/Writing, and the other is a Gaming machine... it isn't crashing my gaming machine with the better processers and graphics capabilities... it IS still making it lag/slow loading, and this thing is a top of the range Gaming Machine.. so fuck knows what it's doing to anyone elses computers that aren't that spec.

I don't know wtf MN are playing at, but they're continued refusal to address it is shocking.

I guess because more than enough people will continue to use it. Same goes for the Reach "newspaper" sites mentioned earlier. To us, they're unusable to plenty of people think otherwise. It's the only explanation that makes financial sense.

Me too

What's the point.
Home Goal there MN . !

I didn't know that, thanks for the info @JurassicPark4Eva

I've reported my posts (as others have) and the reports are being ignored.

The new video popups are using way too much real estate on smartphones, about 30% on mine (not a problem on a tablet though, there it's only stamp-sized). Also, I will have to reduce/stop mobile use of MN, because I can't burn my expensive mobile data on constantly visible/loading video adverts (not in the UK).

@MNHQ isn't a real handle, so the tags mean nothing.

Absolutely sick of these video ads. Please please turn them off. It's a constant stream of crap, fills up an already small page on a mobile phone screen and is extremely intrusive.

The videos are never ending, even with a count down so you can skip an ad - and therefore interact with it.

This is NOT OK.