I thought we didn't have annoying floating adverts on MN...

[FallingWithStyle]

...but there it is, that VW superhero ad is now floating. Not only on active convos but right now on this page.
There isnt even an option to get rid of it, usually there is an X but nope, nothing.
It obscures a third of the links at the top of the page.
Its annoying, can we not have it please?

yeas its pissing me right fucking off it is

Yes. I'm on Firefox and it keeps blocking bits of my page and it won't go away.

It is Very Annoying.

I've just started a thread about the very same thing....grrrrrrrr

The bloody thing is on every page!

Get rid of it! I have a Touran already and don't want one all over Mumsnet. I will boycott - seriously...

Gonna have to log off - making mn fucking unreadable

ohh ive just been named dee the superstrutter on some floaty ad on mn.....

ooh it's gone. yay!!

No it hasn't, it's there, right now!!
The bugger

mines gone

oh fuck its back

yep mines back too.

AdBlock, people. Its your best friend. Never see an ad again.

I used to block the ads (not with AdBlock, just by editing the localhosts file) but then I felt guilty about MN's revenue stream. But at this rate I may just start again.

Glad I'm not the only one; this is REALLY annoying!!!

It's unbelievably stupid.

Hi VW!

This won't increase footfall in your dealers, because the advert is so embarassingly crass and misplaced.

HTH.

I hate it too! MN get rid of it!

Doing my head in here too. Really hate it.

I haven't seen it for a couple of hours. Perhaps it's gone?

Surely adblock won't affect revenue stream - how would it?

If the ad impression counter thingy doesn't register a view of the ad then MN don't get credited for your having looked at the ad (reasonably enough, because you haven't). Certainly via the localhosts method, you wouldn't download the ad at all so there wouldn't be a registered view of the ad -- I'm not entirely sure how AdBlock works but imagine it is likely to be similar.

Yup, looking at the adblock page it works on the basis of Gecko deciding whether or not to load something.

So if you visit MN with AdBlock turned off and the annoying VW ad comes up, it will count as a view of the ad and MN will get 0.001p or something like that from VW. If you visit it with AdBlock turned on Gecko will stop the ad being loaded, it won't count as a view of the ad and MN won't get the 0.001p.

If you always have AdBlock turned on MN gets no revenue from your visits (unless you follow the sponsored links and/or fill in surveys etc.). If everyone always has AdBlock turned on then MN has no revenue at all and Tech will be turned out into the snow to starve (N.B. for the purposes of this melodramatic illustration it's snowing heavily in August. Just go with it).

:( I feel guilty now ...

Yes, just look into the adorable faces of Justine and Carrie's poor starving children and tell them about your blissful ad-free existence...

I notice MN Towers hasn't commented on this thread