How to change inappropriate adverts?

[St3amtrain]

I’m so fed up with constantly seeing IVF and pregnancy adverts on mumsnet. I have to scroll past them every time I use the site.

I can’t be the only one who’s had failed IVF and miscarriage.

What do I need to do to make them go away permanently without subscribing to mumsnet? I’m happy to be spammed with other less triggering adverts 😩

Got to agree with SoupDragon. It should be expected to see parenting and pregnancy related ads on a parenting site. It is a business and where they get their revenue from to run the site.

You can take your own action and use Ad blockers to remove them.

I'm sorry I agree. It's not reasonable to expect a site predominantly about parenting to not have adds for pushchairs etc.

Get Adblock as it'll prevent you seeing them here or elsewhere

It is reasonable to not be expected to be bombarded with the same advert multiple times when you have selected to delete the advert. It occurs on every new page load. I'm not talking about adverts for pushchairs it is the constant IVF advert.

There are a lot of people here for the conception and infertility aspects of the board! If they want us here to use their site then Man should also take us into consideration!

If they don’t want us sad infertiles here then they should delete the infertility board and be honest about it!

Not to mention the miscarriage boards, the pregnancy choices board, the donor conception board, the adoption boards etc.

There are many women using this site today who have suffered a recent loss or with their dead baby sitting inside them - don’t rub their faces in the fecundity of the lucky ones!

we can hide the boards we don’t want to see, that are triggering. But we can’t do that with ads!

we can hide the boards we don’t want to see, that are triggering. But we can’t do that with ads!

You can hide all ads though.

Just get a good ad blocker. I don't see any ads.

If it's helpful anyone, I use uBlock Origin. It's free.

However, I can only get it to work on my laptop, and not my phone. (So far.)

There's also adblock browsers for phones and tablets (I only have Android devices though - not sure if there's an iphone version). The adblock browser I use stops almost everything. And as other pp have said, there are good adblock extension options for laptop browsers.

I refuse to be bombarded by adverts on a minute-by-minute basis. Sorry, mumsnet HQ, but even just reading the comments by other users on this thread alone convinces me that adblockers are vital. No one's mental health should be compromised by insensitive adverts on mumsnet, and if mumsnet won't do anything about the issue or listen to their members then an adblocker is the only option left.