Ann Summers Adverts- please make them fuck off

[SisterNancy]

For days now I have been constantly being shown photos and videos of a woman in pink stockings and suspenders as the advertising on MN. I really don’t come to MN to see that crap. Please tell me how I can stop it. I don’t need or want misogynistic sexualised advertising on a site that supposed to be about support for parents.

Hello @SisterNancy we're sorry to hear you don't like the ad - we'll discuss your feedback at MNHQ.

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet while you are discussing this, your Promoted by Mumsnet thread: 'Need a new toy for the bedroom' could do with specifying that this is about sex toys for people who click on it and don't expect to see vibrators etc. 'Toy' on a parenting site doesn't say 'sex toy' to me, and I don't even have children!

Pretty certain they wouldn’t allow them to promote a fleshlight on the site, even if it is “for parents”!

Another one here who is sick of the Ann Summers soft porn.

You need to install adblocker! (It's free)

Sorry @YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet

BeckyMN thank you but it’s not ‘don’t like’ I really hate it. It’s daily stills and video of a blonde white woman prancing about in pink suspenders and stockings, for days and days now. It’s crap, stereotyped sexist imagery.
And the only other advertising I have been getting on here for occasional light relief is for an online gambling website.

Obviously MN really need to sell ad space to keep MN free, but you also need to make it a welcoming environment to keep me posting for free, playing my small part in creating a site attracting users for your clients to advertise to.

but I really seriously don’t think many people are coming to a parenting site thinking of buying stuff from Anne Summers. Or of popping off for some online gambling. These ads are at all times of day or night. Could you sort it out please?

Its also not ‘the ad’ that I object to. That would be one ad, seen once.

This is a constant daily diet of different videos and stills featuring pink suspenders woman for Anne Summers, only punctuated occasionally by ads for some gambling website.

Are MNers, whose posts make this site what it is, really the target market for these products, making it worthwhile for MN and its clients to be annoying MN posters?

Hey @SisterNancy we've checked and it sounds like this is a Google ad - are you able to send us a screenshot of it when you see it, please? The same for the gambling ad - thanks in advance.

We have filters that prevent certain kinds of programmatic ads from appearing on the site but on occasion some may slip through.

I’m seeing the same thing in the middle of threads.

Please tell me how I can stop it.

If you are on a PC: getadblock.com/en/

It’s back! Ugh.

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet May I add that "hey" is not a polite way of addressing your clients: which is what we are, for the avoidance of doubt.

Or at the least: customers

"Hey" is what younger people say these days, instead of "hi".

Always takes me aback, because in my head, they're shouting at me - "hey you!"

You're only a customer if you're paying for something though.

In reality, our posts are the product.

Honestly not sure what’s going on. The sex topic is rampant right now, then the vibrators and Anne summers stuff.

I was happily browsing active the other day and a thread on rimming of all things appeared.

May as well change the name from mumsnet to sexnet..

Hi all, if you're seeing this ad again, please share a screenshot and, if possible, the URL (if you switch your device to airplane mode then you won't open the site).

@Liora we always address MNers respectfully but our style has always been relatively casual. We're not sure why 'hey' would be impolite in the context of Mumsnet.

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet while you are discussing this, your Promoted by Mumsnet thread: 'Need a new toy for the bedroom' could do with specifying that this is about sex toys for people who click on it and don't expect to see vibrators etc. 'Toy' on a parenting site doesn't say 'sex toy' to me, and I don't even have children!

I am sick of this appearing all the time. How do I hide it, because I really don’t want to see it? ITA a with the comment by an poster about this is Mumsnet; not sexnet!

I don’t need or want misogynistic sexualised advertising on a site that supposed to be about support for parents.
Same here, I don't want that coming up on my phone. I'm going to have to install an ad blocker now.

The constant Ann Summers ads did stop about a month ago replaced by the same constant IVF advert ‘IVF step by step’. It’s less offensive for me personally to see this one constantly because I haven’t had to use IVF. But if I had had to or I had fertility problems I think this might be really upsetting. The gambling website has gone now. I don’t really understand how these google ads work- so is it that MN isn’t able to control which ads we see on MN? What can we do if the ads that Google picks to show us on MN are awful, then?

I saw an Ann Summers ad just the other day.

Hi OP

We don't allow certain adverts such as gambling, but google ads can hide themselves and avoid being blocked - so sometimes we need to manually block them. If you ever have concerns about an advert, you can grab the url to the ad and we'll look into it right away.

Ugh there’s a new one now. I don’t want to be forced to watch girls in sexy lingerie strutting their stuff while I am trying to MN.

Can MNHQ please admit that forcing us to watch this shit this is deliberate part of their Ann Summers partnership and nothing to do with our browsing habits. The gaslighting is equally annoying.

@LilyMumsnet please could you look at this?

AdBlock. There’s a really good one for iPad/phone and I also use an adblocker on desktop.

I get that websites need ad revenue, but when they make the adverts so intrusive and annoying that you want to stop visiting the website in question, I think the website owner has got it wrong. At this point, the website has sacrificed its appeal to visitors for the sake of money.

Thanks @Pringleface - I have just downloaded an AdBlocker. I’ve avoided doing that in the past because I was aware that it would deprive MN of income but there is a line and they have crossed it.