Advert taking up top and side bar in mobile site Active threads page

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Very recently (in the past hour or so) noticed this National Lottery ad taking up not only the usual top ad space but also a sidebar, which scrolls down with you as you go down the page. Considering how small the page is anyway on the mobile site, it's very annoying to have more of it disappear due to an advert! MNHQ can it be gotten rid of?

I was just going to post the same thing!

It is really irritating!

Ditto - i have a large phone and it still takes up tons of space. Very annoying.

Doesn't leave much screen does it! I hope this is a one off!

Me too.

Yep. Very annoying

Me too but my advert is nail polish.

Mumsnet can you please get rid of the side adverts please. Top is ok but side is irritating

I've too been getting the lotto advert (but oddly, not on this thread!)... it usually takes me a while to get used to this kind of change... but the most annoying thing so far is that it moves... totally distracting (but I guess that's what they're after)... and it makes the pages even slower/less likely to load... not encouraging me to stay connected! FYI Lotto - unless you put the price down I've never buying another ticket!

Thanks for flagging this, and for the screenshots too. We're sending it straight on over to tech.

Thanks Caroline

Hi All,

I posted about this on another thread last night, this was, in fact, my fault as I had accidently increased the frequency of these ads, they were decreased to the usual frequency of 2 per day last night, hope it has resolved the issue now.
Sorry.

Hi Angie. Thank you for the extra information. Part of what we were saying is that we had not seen it before on the mobile website. I know it's been on the desktop site for a while.
P.S. I now have a "release the scent" advert on my mobile (same vertical bar as shown above) - but the text is so small I can't make out the company... so maybe the advert is designed only for the desktop?