Honest to god if I accidentally open that SHEIN advert once more

And this one. It's constant.

No screenshot, but happened to me as I was scrolling this thread... Shein.

Thought my phone was being sensitive, glad it's not just me

Now it's the DHgate ads. Screenshot attached, on the app. It is so sensitive I barely skim by it and it's opening a new window every single time 🤯

I'm not sure why you're accepting ads from a site that sells knock off / fake goods anyway.

That's noble of you.

Remember the saying if you don't have to pay for the product you are the product. Revenue streams go much beyond click through advertising. Also duckduckgo filters ads from being seen but not from the browser showing the ad

I don't want to do that really. This place is here because of advertisers and I'm too tight for premium.

Tbf I'm getting utterly haunted by temu on YouTube atm. I've come off it on a huff. Not interested in buying anything from these places but they're so aggressive.

Yep it's already happened to me once this morning. Hate Shein with a passion, absolutely do not want to visit their site !

Use duckduckgo for your browser. Then you don't see ads. You have to change your username in incognito mode in a different browser though. Problem solved.

@HebeMumsnetthis issue is back with the Shein advert, perhaps even worse than previously. It's driving me nuts!

Thanks!

You can see right now how achingly slow the traffic is on MN.

Why are they doing it to themselves?

The company is already being supplied with free product. It already had a fantastic brand reputation and a healthy profit margin. There were ways to grow it that didn’t involve taking the huge risk of trying to ‘persuade’ a critical mass of users to sign up to Premium, that is now alienating the core base.

Yes I have the same problem, you are just scrolling down the thread and suddenly you’re on safari on the shein page. I will never use them in a million years and it’s highly annoying to keep getting directed to them.
I just end up leaving Mumsnet as get so pissed off with it. The other ads don’t seem to have that sensitivity

That shein advert thing has just happened to me 3 times in a row and I'm sure I didn't actually click it. So frustrating

I agree.

I never minded seeing a few ads on MN - that was the understood ‘contract’.

But the way that MN has allowed blocks of screen to be inhabited is too much. You can now feel that MNers - whose own posts are the product, fgs - are becoming frustrated with the seemingly endless ‘oooh, send us a screenshot’ responses.

The product, as a result, is degrading.

It is not the brands you see that are causing this, it is the third party companies who advertise on here . Around 16 companies accompany you in your reading and scrolling and compete for your attention and data. Add DuckDuckGo as a browser for MN or other ad-heavy websites, and the problem is solved.
My MacBook used to overheat so much, fan going and it was slowing down everything even when I wasn’t active on MN.
Advertising is a necessary evil, and I never minded the ads on the sides or tops. At some point however, they took over.
I hope MN will identify which of the 16 companies uses this ad tactic which is highly intrusive.

On the recommendation of another frustrated MNer, I downloaded the (free) DuckDuckGo browser app onto my phone for MN use.

It strips out all these bloody intrusive adverts. It also seemingly saves battery life and helps prevent the overheating I was having. Oh, and no more freezing.

Ruins many a Mumsnet thread. I hate it

God I hate the Shien ad and you have to keep clicking back...and back... and then you click too far and its all gone, I usually then go off to Facebook or another social media page so mumsnet loses me for the day

Yep I get them on here all the time too

It's all the side ads. If your scrolling thumb even approaches them they bounce you into a new tab. Monsoon is stalking me. I'm not an expert but I would suggest it is do with the design of the page and space between the content and ad that needs review rather faffing with individual ads.

Me too like 10 times a day - super annoying.

It’s annoying me too. It’s the Qatar Black Friday 20% off advert. It opens as you scroll. I was on the DV survivor 🤕 thread - unril suddenly I wasn’t. Please can you fix @mnhqthanks.

I thought this was just me!!!