Adverts three quarters of page

[PettsWoodParadise]

Advert percentage seems to be getting worse, three quarters of the page, making it slow to load in the web PC version and difficult to focus on the thread. Same advert on two sides of the text make it very hard to concentrate on what you were actually visiting the site for. Attached image from Google Chrome.

Hi OP

Thanks for getting in touch about this.
How often are you seeing this?

I don’t use mumsnet on my PC very often. Currently on my phone. I will check again when I next do and let you know.

OK, the left panel hasn't reappeared today which seemed to make it soooo much worse yesterday. Images from today. Lots of blank adverts which invariably slow things down. Some top and right adverts unbalancing the text.

Hi OP

Not seeing where the blank adverts are - is this affecting ability to post on the boards?

Morning, everyone. We've asked our ads team about this one. The ad is behaving as it should in that it does expand or contract to fill the screen around the threads. We do appreciate what everyone is saying about making it harder to focus on the thread though. The ad only runs until the end of this month so you shouldn't be seeing it for ever.

We'll look into the issue of the 'blank' ads now, too. Could anyone tell us more about where they are appearing as we can't see them in the screenshots? Thank you!

Thank you. here is an example of blank adverts on my mobile, i snipped it on my phone on Friday but it has been behaving much better since for me.

Sorry I don’t take a link of the thread at the time, will send more if it carries on happening, it seems to ebb and flow for me.

Thanks @PettsWoodParadise

This is what the site looks like when I scroll on my phone @HebeMumsnet . An ad banner at the top and then a huge ad filling the feed. You can just see your message at the top in blue and the OPs in green at the bottom. When an ad fills the page it's incredibly difficult to scroll the page without clicking on it, which I have no interest in doing.

This page loading and then loaded
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/further_education/4799027-is-it-too-early-for-an-a-level-support-thread?page=35
Can’t see any of the thread. This is on a mobile.

This page https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/higher_education/4753014-oxbridge-2024-entry?page=15&reply=127005372 on mobile the advert takes up entire screen.

That Disney Ad really really is annoying, seeing it everywhere including this thread! I know you said it is running to end of month but is it being replaced with another? This is back on a browser on a laptop.

Hi again @PettsWoodParadise and others,

I've had a long chat with our ads team and have got a few answers and suggestions that might help a bit.

We do know that some of the ads on the site are quite large but those large ones that fill all the space around the thread are capped in terms of how often you see them (usually three times a day) and as we say, they're also time limited so each particular ad won't be around forever. The one we think you're talking about is set to cover all the blank space around the threads, so if you're having trouble seeing the list of threads, you can 'zoom in' on the threads and that should help. We do see the difficulty with that though and will take that feedback on board for the next campaign like this.

Generally speaking, while we totally understand why users might not always like large ads, they are fairly standard on mobile websites these days and we need to be able to take them in order to generate income and keep the site free to use. Having said that, there is always the option to sign up to our Premium membership, which is largely ad-free (no display ads like videos, banners or pop ups), if you wanted to.

In practical terms, to help you use the site more easily for now, on those big ads, like the Sky one, you've sent us a screengrab of, we leave a 'padding area' down each side, so you should be able to scroll past fairly easily on the left or right rail. With ads like the pink GiffGaff one, again, you should just be able to click above or below and scroll past it.

All our ads are in fixed positions and should not shift or change the way content is viewed, so if you ever see content being covered/shifting then absolutely that is something we will look at and please send us a screengrab and a url.

With regards to the blank ads you've been seeing, this should be quite rare, but if you have a slow internet coverage, this could be the reason. We don't use "Lazy load" on our website so ads loading should not prevent you from scrolling or viewing content. It might be slow to load due to the sheer volume of posts sometimes. For longer threads, limiting the amount of posts viewable by page might well help, too.

We hope some of that is of some use anyway.

Thank you!

site unreadable on PC - ads top sides and side plus - and they move - and they are so irrelevant - I have NOTHING to spend - its making me seasick - will only use mobile site - best way to keep me off Mumsnet all day anyway