Yet another ‘advert’ blocking the page 😡

Tiddlywinks63 · 2026-03-13T18:49:27+00:00

What on earth is this! It’s getting ridiculous now with adverts disrupting the page. i’m on my iPad.

anyolddinosaur · 31/03/2026 11:19

Mumsnet is also the only site I use where pages freeze and I have to exit them. I suspect this is also caused by the adds.

MNHQ

KellyMumsnet · 23/03/2026 10:53

Morning, everyone. We're in touch with the ad partner that we think is supplying these ads but we need a bit more information to solve the problem.

Next time one of these appears, we'd be really grateful to have a screenshot along with the exact URL of the Mumsnet page you were on when it happened, the date and time of it occurring, the type of browser and device you are using and if you can click on the ad itself afterwards the URL of the ad, too.

If anyone happens to be able to get a video of it happening that would be even more useful but we appreciate that's going to be a bit of an ask.

Many thanks

youbizarrehorse · 23/03/2026 07:31

The ads are worse than any website I know. Some blog type sites with recipes and crochet patterns are riddled with pop ups etc, but at least there’s usually an option to jump past the tutorials and straight to the recipe/pattern and cut down the intrusion somewhat. With Mumsnet there’s nowhere to go. It’s constant bombardment. Surely there’s a happy medium?

Rozendantz · 23/03/2026 05:39

When this happened last year and MN took so long to fix it (if indeed it did get fixed?) a lovely user helpfully posted that switching to the DuckDuckGo browser solved it - and it's true, I've been using it ever since. It will resolve all the ad issues (which always seem to be exclusive to MN for some reason).

PrioritisePleasure24 · 23/03/2026 05:29

I got a monzo ad this morning that took over my whole screen ( the whole screen of my phone) in black. Caught me off guard didn’t screenshot. But it is ridiculous.

GlomOfNit · 22/03/2026 20:19

I don't know if it's the same thing, but I keep on getting a total screen hijack whilst writing a post on a thread, where with no warning my entire screen (as in, it goes whole-screen) is taken over by an advert film for 10 seconds! The last one just happened and it was some recipe crap from Morrisons. I didn't see a pop-up that I may have inadvertently clicked on, and I have no idea where it's coming from.

and I also get this black rectangle of doom, with no way of clicking it away until it vanishes.

youbizarrehorse · 22/03/2026 10:00

I’m getting the black box of death too. An advert plays, then the box turns black and there’s no way to close it. It’s pretty big. I had replied to a thread and couldn’t access the ‘post’ button due to the ad popping up then refusing to close, so I gave up.

Original poster

Tiddlywinks63 · 20/03/2026 15:14

Flipping infuriating. And no, there isn’t an x to click!

Yet another ‘advert’ blocking the page 😡

OP posts:

Original poster

Tiddlywinks63 · 20/03/2026 15:13

And again ..,,honestly MN it’s getting ridiculous now

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RuudGullitOnAShed · 19/03/2026 17:00

I'm now getting an advert covering the page that is just a black box - I don't have any ad blockers in place

GentleSheep · 19/03/2026 08:59

Just expecting people to click on the 'X' (if you can see/find it) isn't a reasonable response, no ad should block or partially block the site.

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 18/03/2026 14:24

KellyMumsnet · 18/03/2026 09:56

@MixedFeelingsNoFeelings Could we ask you, if you can recreate this, to click the info and ad choices button on the top right and bottom right of the top image and take a screenshot to post here of what happens next? That might help us work out where these are coming from. Many thanks.

Ah sorry didn't see your reply in time. It's not doing it today anyway so hopefully fixed...

anyolddinosaur · 18/03/2026 12:35

M&S back today and still blocking the page. On another an add, maybe the same one disappeared - but then left a book saying it had gone which still blocked the post. Refreshing the page got rid of that.

Atatwalker · 18/03/2026 10:07

KellyMumsnet · 18/03/2026 09:56

@MixedFeelingsNoFeelings Could we ask you, if you can recreate this, to click the info and ad choices button on the top right and bottom right of the top image and take a screenshot to post here of what happens next? That might help us work out where these are coming from. Many thanks.

Kelly im not getting those adchoices or the x to close them

it’s awful. It’s genuinely making the site unusable

MNHQ

KellyMumsnet · 18/03/2026 09:56

@MixedFeelingsNoFeelings Could we ask you, if you can recreate this, to click the info and ad choices button on the top right and bottom right of the top image and take a screenshot to post here of what happens next? That might help us work out where these are coming from. Many thanks.

lonelysootsprite · 18/03/2026 08:22

I’m also having this issue. A big black box popping up covering posts so I can’t read them! Safari on iPad. There was no cross in the corner, it hadn’t fully loaded the the black box and there was something grey in the top right corner so I clicked it thinking it might be the cross but it wasn’t.

It’s different to the usual small advert in the bottom right, where there is a cross.

Atatwalker · 18/03/2026 06:37

Also getting these with no x to close them. Safari iPad latest OS.

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 17/03/2026 20:37

Got this just now. As others have said, you close it and it just opens in a new tab.

NewTricks2026 · 16/03/2026 22:04

Is this ad “behaving as it should”? 🙄

SqueakyDinosaur · 16/03/2026 21:36

Still happening here on a laptop using Firefox. If I click on the X, it doesn't close the black square but opens a separate tab at https://privacy.equativ.com/

MNHQ

KellyMumsnet · 16/03/2026 19:46

Thanks to everyone who's shared screenshots. We'll look into all those. Just to add, we can see on some of those screenshots that some ads do have the 'x' button top right. Those ads are legitimate and behaving as they should, so can just be closed by clicking on the 'x'. The ones we're still looking into are those that can't be closed at all and don't have the 'x' button.

Cherrycola4 · 16/03/2026 17:34

Amazon too

anyolddinosaur · 16/03/2026 17:05

Whatever add it is should not be preventing you from reading the OP's post. I think it switched from M&S but like another poster I rage exited mumsnet. Perhaps that's the idea.......not persuade us to buy, persuade us to leave.

PeonyPatch · 16/03/2026 13:02

I keep getting this lately too.

NewTricks2026 · 16/03/2026 13:01

3 ads on one small screen. 2 don’t even have a cross. One is across the post and won’t move.

I hate the response, ‘just close the video’. HOW?!

I reported this issue ages ago. MNHQ asked me to take a video of it happening 🙄 needless to say I couldn’t be bothered. The adverts have ruined this site.