Advert taking over entire screen

[GoingToBeLessRubbishAtLife]

Like this…….

iPad, Chrome.

Again.

This is the only website I ever visit that has problems. Can’t you pay some GCSE students to fix it or something?

What I've coming to know is that MN as a company subscribes to a "package" of advertising and they don't get to choose the adverts or the companies making the adverts. So the only way they can ever get to know of problems is if their end user community (aka all of us) reports stuff like this, the black scrolly curtain of death the revolving one, the one with spontaneous music that you can't turn off etc.

I suppose they could get volunteers sitting in MN Towers, or an 18yo techie A Level student etc but we're free and there are lots of us, and probably have to earn our free use of MN somehow

It's just randomly happened again.

I see it as a weird act of vandalism to block someone's screen intentionally such that the only way to get rid of it is to close the browser and start again, but not knowing when the next time will be.

I obviously need to get out more, but I am fascinated by the modern techniques of advertising and the psychology that must be involved in thinking how can I force someone to have to sit and look at my ad. It's a bit like those people who kidnap people by stealth on holiday and make them sit for two hours watching a hard sales pitch for a Time Share.

4th time this morning

And I don't see why I have to be ordered by an inanimate object like an advert to suffer having to read MN on an iPad in portrait orientation. Bonkers

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@HebeMumsnet @JoMumsnet @LilyMumsnet

Hey everyone! How’s it going with sorting this? Any chance something can be done?

Morning! Sorry some of you are still seeing this. Can we ask first, if you're still having the same issue with the ad, have you cleared your cache? That should fix it not but if not, let us know and we'll look again.

Yes, still happening, and I did clear my cache.

It's still happening. What are you actually doing to eliminate the adverts. Clearing down the cache has quite a negative impact for the user, deleting all previously stored settings just to sort out the problem on the MN website

I feel like I’m just going to be posting screenshots between now and the end of time.

And no I’m not rotating my device to see which advert it is.

@HebeMumsnet
@JoMumsnet
@LilyMumsnet

Hi OP

We're sorry we don't have an update for this yet, but we promise it's very much being looked at and we're trying to get to the bottom of it. As soon as we do, we will let you know.

I hadn't had this problem for quite some time but it's back today. Difflam is the offending advert for me. For the first time ever the advert did display when I rotated my device. But I won't be rotating it again!

This one is still here for Jet 2. Is anyone actually doing anything rather than wanting me to delete my cache?

Good question! I don’t think they’re doing anything. It’s happened to me again but I didn’t bother screenshotting or rotating my iPad. I just moved to Reddit again 🤷‍♀️.

@MNHQ did you know this has started again?!

Happening to me too 😟

Yes, this is happening to me again as well!

@LilyMumsnet@JoMumsnet@HebeMumsnet@mnhq please please can you look at this again. Why does it keep happening?

Still happening…