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Can I switch off the huge ads (please)?

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YogaDrone · 17/05/2016 08:05

Absolutely HUGE ads are taking up half the screen this morning. They are massive!!! Running down both left and right sides of the page and leaving very little space for any actual threads.

Is there a way to switch them off please? I want to read thread conversation content not look at twee adverts for stuff I don't want (and am even less likely to want now given that they are annoying me!)

Can I switch off the huge ads (please)?
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KatherineMumsnet · 17/05/2016 11:20

Hi all,

So sorry about this! We've flagged to the ads team, and will get back to you as soon as we hear. Flowers

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DawnMumsnet · 20/05/2016 21:01

@iseenodust

They're back. On Talk homepage I can only see the title of the first thread as pushed so far down the page by ad and the MN ad for pregnancy thingy.

Hi iseenodust,

Can you let us know which ad you're seeing please? And if there's any chance of grabbing a screenshot, that'd be ace.

The more info we have, the better. Smile

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DawnMumsnet · 20/05/2016 21:04

Frazzlerock,

So sorry you're seeing these particular ads; we can understand how upsetting that must be. Flowers

Can you please let us know where these ads are cropping up for you. Are you on the desktop site? Again, the more info we have, the sooner we can sort things.

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DawnMumsnet · 21/05/2016 13:00

Thanks, Iseenodust - we'll get our Ads team to take another look.

Frazzle - next time you see the ad, can you check whether there's a little blue triangle at the top right corner? This would mean it's an Ad Choices placement (loosely based on your search history), and if you click on the triangle you should have the option to opt out of receiving ads from particular groups of companies.

Do please let us know either way.

Many thanks.

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RebeccaMumsnet · 27/05/2016 11:59

Hi all,

Thanks for your posts and feedback.
Yes, it is a new thing and we've been tweaking it to see how it works.

The new skins will run across the site but you shouldn't see them more than once per hour, please do let us know if you do.

Apologies for the lack of response and conflicting info, it took us a bit longer than normal to get to the bottom of what was happening.

Obviously, we'll be listening to your feedback, as ever so please do keep it coming.

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JustineMumsnet · 27/05/2016 18:27

I agree these are too intrusive. It seems we're serving both reskins (the wrap-around ads) and leaderboards/billboards (top ads) at the same time. That's a mistake and we'll fix asap. We'll also reduce the frequency of the wraparound ads - they do generate more revenue but agree they are quite in you're face so we'll cap them to show only a few times a day.

Sorry for any upset - we'll sort this asap.

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JustineMumsnet · 09/06/2016 11:23

We don't currently have any restrictions on advertising the Morning After Pill on Mumsnet. Just wondered what the objection is?

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JustineMumsnet · 09/06/2016 13:39

@Merd

Hello Justine. With those, so many of us come here for the miscarriage threads when we're having an emotional time - it would be a bit like (but not quite) lots of suicide clinics being advertised near the bereavement boards ... I think.

Dawn seemed to get it a bit more upthread?

Yes I see that Merd - we will definitely make sure these don't appear on the miscarriage (or bereavement) boards.

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JustineMumsnet · 09/06/2016 14:35

@DownHereInTheHorridHouse

I'm quite uncomfortable with the idea of saying MAP ads are unsuitable for MN.

I know it's personal and some have said they're triggering, but everything's triggering for someone somewhere. As someone who has had - many, many - miscarriages, I still think it's pretty important to have avenues which offer women choice and options.

I think you make some very valid points and we're not putting MAP ads on the banned from MN list for those very reasons. I do though think it's the right thing to do to not show them on miscarriage and bereavement topics.

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JustineMumsnet · 10/06/2016 10:53

@drspouse

They were showing up on Active Threads and Threads I'm On which are most people's landing spots. Maybe they could just not appear on those?

Will check to see if we can include those pages too.

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