Constant intrusive videos

[BTECBetty]

These are driving me mad. I understand you need to sell advertising space, but on every thread there is a highly intrusive video. Even when I close them down they reappear on the same thread! Surely once a user has closed the ad that should be it?

Surely one ad at a time is enough?!

Exactly - there's ads around the page, ads within the page and ads 'pretending' to be threads on the forum page. How many more bloody ads do MN want? Or is MN just an ad platform with some forum stuff occasionally inserted around them?

That's what it has become. I'm on Reddit more and more now, which is a shame because I don't want to be.

Didn't want another app so I've now learnt to block at DNS level 😎

Android: Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Private DNS and select "Private DNS provider hostname." Enter dns.adguard.com (other blockers are available).

The internet is so much calmer.

Would this work for iOS too?

Sort of, the setting up is different. Scroll down to Option 2: Configure AdGuard DNS manually, here:
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

Caveat: DNS ad blocking may not work on some public WiFi networks, I had to turn it off to use the Vodafone network WiFi on the London Underground. But on Android that's as easy as going back to the same settings and selecting off/automatic.

Any word from @mnhq?

I don’t mind ads. I understand that they need to make money. But it is taking the piss rather.

@MNHQ I know there has been a bank holiday, but the working day is now nearly over and you’ve ignored the thread with the most traffic in Site Stuff. Are six pages of posters complaining not enough to make you see this is an issue?

Tagging MNHQ doesn't do anything as it's not an actual username. I always thought that they routinely looked at and commented on threads in site stuff, but maybe not. Only other way to get them to see it is by reporting your own thread

Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to share feedback about the new video ads and our apologies for the delay in responding. We understand that they can feel intrusive, and we’re working with our ad partner so improvements can be made.

Once closed, the ad should not reappear on the same page. It may show again if you move to a new page, but if it appears without navigating away, please send a screen recording to [email protected] so we can investigate. We’re aware that the close button can be fiddly on some devices, and this is something we are monitoring.

While advertising is an important part of keeping Mumsnet free to use, we want to make sure it doesn’t disrupt your experience more than necessary. Your feedback is really helpful in helping us strike that balance.

It definitely doesn't go away after closing it. It reappears after around 30 seconds. I'll try to take a recording to show this.

It’s really intrusive and disruptive.

Between the drop down ads and the ginormous ads mid page, my phone screen can just be all ads.

And the ads have zero impact on my shopping habits - except vowing to avoid the brands with the most annoying ones.

Chrome laptop

It's totally stopped for me

@BeckyAMumsnet They don’t stay closed, they just pop back up again.

But this thread should show you that pop up ads are really intrusive and unwanted - it doesn’t make me want to subscribe to get rid of them, it makes me so pissed off I just use MN less. How happy are your advertisers going to be when the number of people looking at their ads falls? Or when they’re associated with irritating ads driving women away from what is often an important form of support?

@BeckyAMumsnet They don’t stay closed, they just pop back up again.

But this thread should show you that pop up ads are really intrusive and unwanted - it doesn’t make me want to subscribe to get rid of them, it makes me so pissed off I just use MN less. How happy are your advertisers going to be when the number of people looking at their ads falls? Or when they’re associated with irritating ads driving women away from what is often an important form of support?

The ads just keep coming back. As PP says, it doesn't make me want to subscribe and pay, it makes me want to stop using MN.

If everyone is closing them immediately and getting annoyed by them, then it really isn't working as advertising is it.

@BeckyAMumsnet thanks

So they are here to stay, basically? That is a shame. I'm alright with static ads but moving ones are particularly annoying.

I've just gone onto chrome and counted eight (8!!) ads in one single thread. Most moving.

One made my phone stick for a while before I could scroll.

On top of this, there were two 'promoted by Mumsnet' ads randomly in the middle and the active threads plonked in the middle.

It's beyond ridiculous.

I have an ad every 3 or 4 posts. It's ridiculous.

There often isn’t an x for me to close the advert

my iPhone screen is 13cm and so an ad appearing from the top covers too much of the thread. Maybe it’s different ratio for a lap top but for mobiles it’s too intrusive.

Agree, it’s beyond sillly now.

The only x's I see are on the static ads, and they’re not a problem - easy to ignore. I've never seen an x on the video ads. I just try to scroll past to stop them playing, but they get stuck and freeze (then catch up and zoom me half way down the thread).

I came on here, very late at night, to see what is going on. It's all shit. Rolling adverts for Aldi. A supermarket I would never go to. Horrific ads. Will leave I imagine.

The site has been terrible recently. Between all the ads, the flashing ads, the pop up ads, the glitching, the freezing, the loss of numerous functions for some of us for nearly 2 months (clicking on notifications and bookmark not working, being taken back to the first post or mid thread instead of the most recent post etc etc etc), the Ann Summers bums and sex toys ads and the young female athletes' bums sexist ads, Mumsnet has lost her way. I've been here for a couple of decades or so, so feel qualified and entitled to comment and - yes - to judge what is being allowed to happen here now.

If everyone is closing them immediately and getting annoyed by them, then it really isn't working as advertising is it.

My tip is to hang a sock over the righthand side of the laptop screen. It covers the worst offending and distracting ads. It doesn't deal with all the freezing, glitching and loss of even basic functions though.

@BTECBetty @BeckyAMumsnet - please see my first sentence about sock use! See what I've been driven to doing! Things have gone too far. It is getting ridiculous now.