To be irritated about the MN JustGiving Ad on my iphone

[lottie63]

Okay, so I know there are bigger things in life BUT It's located at the bottom of the screen on my iphone and regularly opens every time I scroll down. It doesn't make me want to give any more money. In fact, I'm less likely to as I feel 'intruded upon'. There'll be people who will argue for me to improve my scrolling skills... but it's easily inadvertently touched when scrolling down to read the posts. It just pisses me off that I spend time having to close down the Just Giving page in order to continue reading the thread

Haha I completely agree! The number of times I have accidentally hit it with my fat fingers drives me mad

I'm on an iPhone and I don't have it

they get about a zillion hits a day from me.

Ditto. Wonder if Vodafone realise it's been purposefully designed to get fat-finger hits rather than real ones.

Im on Android and have fat fingers. ...and I have the same problem. Yeah I get its not the most pressing issue in life ....just annoying

AKiss - How do you not have it? I m on MN through the app. Do you think this is the difference? Do you access MN from another source? It really is doing my head in. It feels like the virtual equivalent of being accosted in the street by students wanting money to save 'Siberian Tigers'

AKiss have you really not got the ad? Have you ever had it? Wish I could hide mine

YANBU. Drives me fucking mad.

Mobile site. Ads are below the posting box. I barely see them, never mind tap them.

Oh that's why then. I just access the site through safari rather than the app.

YANBU - I am forever hitting it by accident and it's incredibly annoying. I already give plenty to charity and have used justgiving many times in the past so I don't need to be guilted into more!

Drives me potty too.

So what does using the app give you that accessing through safari doesn't (apart from annoying ads?)

Not sure really. It's quicker to access possibly.. Have turned on auto log in with it

I agree - really pisses me off too!

You can stay signed in if you just access through safari too though.

Heart ache and aggravation, so far as I can tell.

YANBU at all, I find it really annoying and not at all more likely to make me give money.

Are mn being paid per click? If so i bet they are making a killing

So why don't you all vote with your fingers, stop using the app and just access MN through Safari?

I suppose I feel irritated that I have to do that to avoid the ad. I still have this feeling that it may be quicker to use the app though of course in reality I end up taking longer to read the thread as I have to go through the rigmarole of closing the ad page down which takes longer.

However, Apps exist for a reason, don't they...they're supposed to be quicker access to things you want.

It's infuriating!

I hate it too, and I've already had Kindle Fire and MN issues, so my tether is very short.