Please get rid of this flashing scammg advert on mobile site

[AgentProvocateur]

"You have a message" with a red flashing envelope. It's giving me a headache - literally. And ids on the top of every third thread I open. I much prefer adverts in the body of the text.

I've had it as well.

This is bloody ridiculous.

What next? Porn? Either MN can screen the imported content or it can't. I'd like to think obvious scams could be blocked, especially when reported repeatedly.

It's still appearing.

Can you prod tech again please?

Just had it too, give tech a boot up the arse

Still bloody there!
Flashing away and annoying the hell out of me.

Linerunner, you missed the porn then! It was a few weeks ago and was bloody awful.

I'm getting this flashing thing too.

Oh my God. I missed the Mumsnet porn?

Yes LineRunner loads of us kept getting deducted to porn sites. :(

It wasn't MN's finest hour. There'll be a thread about it in site stuff. Someone took a screen capture I seem to remember.

deducted redirected

Here you go LineRunner

Bloody hell.

Hi folks,

We're still working on getting rid of the ad, but our tech guys have to find it before they can zap it, so it's just a case of waiting for it to pop up again.

Rest assured we haven't forgotten about it!

You need AdBlock!!! (I used to be plagued with this stuff but no more!!! - Sooooo pleased)

Amy- are you saying that you agree it's unsuitable, but you can only deal with unsuitable ads if a member of the tech team actually see it?

I mean, are the tech team unable to shut down ads - even if users provide screenshots- unless tech team catch it themselves while browsing the site on their own device?

That's bizarre.

aarghhhh get rid of it please.

I've got it back now

I think MN have a generic ad service. Calls to adseller.site/mumsnet are allowed. Then the generic ad service will spew out whatever.

Tech cannot bar the generic ad service, all revenue would cease. When the offending ad pops up, they CAN trace and block that one specific ad. But yes, unless someone sends MNHQ the URL referrer ti the bad ad, they will have to be sat there trapping stuff when it appears in order to trap the address and enter it into the blocking filters.

Disclaimer: this is a very generic explanation.

moplayapp.com/p/w/uk/3/?s=2113233793. here you are. Bloody annoying.

I'm amazed they can't 'catch' it though... It's appearing about once every 8 threads for me when browsing.

Ironically I now see it on top of this thread...

I've just had it. Very annoying.

@SorrelForbes

moplayapp.com/p/w/uk/3/?s=2113233793. here you are. Bloody annoying.

Thanks for catching that one, Sorrel, we'll flag it to our Tech folk.

Sorry for all the faff, everyone.