Constant intrusive videos

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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?

Nice advert. At least it didn't freeze my screen this time. Do you really want to risk your payment details with MN after all the data breaches?

I'm the product. Why should I pay? All mn needs to do is to stop being greedy and run ads that are compatible with people browsing. Then no one would mind 🤷

Hello mn 🤷

So the answer is ‘tough shit, it’s staying’.

Lots of flashing betting ads now in addition to overtly sexualised Ann Summers and young women athletes' bums misogynistic ads.

It seems like MN have sold their souls to the devil and are trying to do the same with ours.

Which DuckDuckGo chrome extension should I be looking at? Or am I looking at the wrong things?

I think £5 would be affordable to me, but given MN's history of data breaches and doxxing there's no way I'd risk handing over my details! (And is it true it's not even a direct debit? So if you're banned it can't be cancelled?).

@PipMumsnet How about you just get rid of the popups? There's enough ads already, how many more do you need? All you'll achieve is people finding a way to block ads completely and then you'll have less ad revenue than you started with.

I downloaded the DuckDuckGo browser.

I'm using the actual browser rather than an extension for Chrome. Just downloaded it from the DDG website. I'm on a Mac laptop right now but I've also done the same on on my PC. Still using Chrome or Safari for everything else.

DH has used it for You Tube for a while now for the same reason.

It's really horrible seeing moving adverts when you are trying to read something.

MN used to be a good site, but now it feels more like a regional newspaper site, where adverts appear so much that you can't actually read the article.

It's really sad that it's gone this way.

Sorry @PipMumsnet but there’s no X.

X does not mark the spot, sadly.

Ok, I’ve just sat on one page and let that Fisher fecking Price advert run. It is running on a loop. It runs for 15 seconds. Over and over and over. It doesn’t stop.

There is definitely no ‘X’.

I’m on a bog standard iPhone & browser.

Now there is a new thing going with my screen. It is freezing and then moving up very very slowly and juddering. What the hell is going on?

I thought this was a problem with my phone initially but I realised that it was happening whilst all the adverts were trying to load, after about a minute (yes that long!) it stops -I can’t believe that this is still not been sorted and I’m still having to close the advert several times!

I don’t mind giving MN a fiver a month - but I DO very much mind passing over my bank details to a website that’s had previous data issues, one of which apparently involved a hacking and one of which involved an intern member of staff I believe.

I had to disable my Adblocker because otherwise using the site was unworkable. Now I find my poor ADHD brain being addled on an hourly basis by the brightly coloured pop up videos which seem to play in every corner simultaneously. The visual noise is so great that I hardly know where to look!

I'd have thought the sidebar adverts would be enough to finance the site, without having to overlay with adverts for other stuff. Which are then overlaid with yet more adverts. Surely this means the advertisers must also be pissed off, since their advert is often rendered piecemeal.

MN don’t care about that. They’re getting paid to run the ads, whether anyone watches them or not.

I have read that on MN but don’t know what the official MNHQ response was.

We should be careful not to overly share how we bypass the ads… It will only alert MN and start them working out how to 'fix' it 🥸

Just ridiculous- this is how much of my screen is filled with actual Mumsnet posts at times.

If the % was reversed, I'm sure people would be ok with the adverts (although I don't like the videos consuming my mobile data)

It's just getting worse, massive adverts for Bet365 with moving bits, and ITVX with a video running. Funkos, and now National Lottery with its mind bending circles.

It just makes the thread unreadable when there is moving stuff in the background, especially the lottery one.

I've just read one short ish thread and had to shut down 8 pop ups. The first three were the same advert. Something to do with 90s and 80s music. The final five times were an advert for something called "Borderlands" on repeat.

It would be nice if MNHQ could respond to what is clearly an issue.

Some have xs some don’t

Deeply user-unfriendly, especially for neurodiversity, migraines, epilepsy etc @BeckyAMumsnet @PipMumsnet

im not working for MN lol. I am quite a longstanding member though.
I think we are in the age of the internet, and as such, businesses are finding other ways to keep going.
You get the option to subscribe, or you take your chance with whatever shitty adverts are going to be thrown at you.
I decided to subscribe to my local newspaper site, because its also a fucking nightmare for adverts, but still, i continue to want to read it. I decided to subscribe to MN because I use the site daily, and I also want to support them because of how theyve provided space for feminists.
I subscribe to a couple of other sites too.

I wouldnt complain in shops that they made it too difficult to read the papers for free or use their products for free.

Noone makes you subscribe, and there are ways to use mumsnet without a subscription if you want, but its a bit annoying imo, and i just think if people are regulars and can afford it, then its worth doing if you hate pop up ads.