Ads with moving borders

I've just got them on the iPad too, the laptop and phone are ok. I scroll past as soon as possible as they make me feel quite giddy!!

Moving borders had stopped (ad was still there) but came back. Just cleared the cache. The ads are still there Tom. One at the top of the screen, the other to the right of the threads. Only there on the iPad, not seen them on the iMac - and don’t want to!

I'm learning all the time.... I've put an ad blocker on my iPad, I paid 78p for it. I installed it from the App Store and enabled it in Settings, selecting it from the Safari menu.

The Ad blocker seems to work OK except that some sites refused to load because they detected I was using an Ad blocker! For those using an iPad or iPhone, it may help to know that if you hold down the refresh/reload symbol at the end of the URL (Address) bar, you get the option to turn off the Ad blocker temporarily. Just hope someone might be interested (I didn't choose my username without reason).

It’s still on my IPad, I assume it’s a ‘legal’ scam. It says it’s put there by Prizeworld, so if you click on it you get nothing but more harassment to join a gambling site.
Has anyone clicked?

"Ad blocker" - I think you just go to the app store and download one. I did this on my desktop mac and it worked a treat.

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No, mines dancing away merrily

It has gone from mine today without me doing anything maybe GN has done something to remove it

That ad drives me to distraction. I’ve been putting up with it for about three weeks. It does stop moving after a while but when it does move it’s beyond irritating especially when there are two: a narrow horizontal one across the top and a square box shaped one to the right. I’d love to know how to get rid of it but there is no cross.

How do I find Adblocker on my iPad?

I’m the 1,000,000 too! Not sure what I visited though! How did you stop it flashing Corner?

Nothing to click to remove it but the wretched thing has stopped flashing on my iPad. Would prefer it gone. It no way relates to browsing history.

Sorry, I pressed post too quickly (cooking the dinner), I meant to say I can ignore ‘static’ adds that don't interest me but the flashing ones are a step too far and they could redirect to malicious websites. The ad blocker I've used will allow static ads until I turn them off and I can 'white list' some that interest me. That seems fair, as I don't want all advertising revenue to dry up and start paying to use some websites.

On my iPad, I've found these ads really intrusive and there is nowhere to click to close them. Such ads are counter-productive because I've just put an ad blocker on my iPad and stopped them. Like others, I can ignore ads that I’m not interested in but appreciate that we’d have to pay to visit some sites if advertising revenue was stopped.

I've just closed one of these moving ads by clicking on a cross in the top right corner of the Ad. A message in place of the offending Ad says 'Ad closed by Google'. So presumably it was placed by Google. Or is that too simple?

Pleased I’m not the only one being irritated by these ads, but like you, I’m not clicking anywhere near them!
Hoping they go away soon!

I would imagine it depends on what virus protection and adblocker etc you have on your equipment . We always have norton and don't have any problems . Never got pop ups or advertising with or without flashing lights . It would drive me nuts.
Do you have free virus protection or worse .. None!
I am no tech though so don't quite me on that I just feel safer with paid security on our devices

The explanation would imply that everyone affected has the same browsing history. But using GN is prob the only common thing, so how can the sudden appearance of these ads be unrelated to GN (obvs unintentionally)? Clicking in top right corner gets me nowhere.

No arrow on the ad, and I’m not clicking anywhere near it! These ads frequently serve a pop up to iPads that can only be got rid of by deleting all your browsing history & cookies, which is too much of an inconvenience. Sorry, AdBlocker is going back on!
(PS Mumsnet usually seem to manage to block/get rid of this type of ad)

Well, as I was looking at this thread, my screen was completely taken over by Sky telling me 'Congratulations' etc. I hadn't clicked on anything, it just appeared. I got rid of it by clicking back a page.

No, you two can’t be because I am the lucky winner!

Here’s a screenshot of the relevant ad for the benefit of the techs- it almost certainly goes to a page that will plant unwanted cookies, if not worse.
Hopefully Gransnet will get rid of it - if not I’ll be re-enabling my AdBlocker soon...

Apparently I'm also the lucky 1,000.000th winner.
Very annoying. Click here! Not a chance.