The site is driving me mad!

It seems fairly pointless to continue with a trial of a process which is clearly annoying members; the only positive comments come from those whose access to Gransnet does not receive these ridiculous advertisements.

FannyCornforth

NotSpaghetti

Please come back @gransnet and solve this.

PLEASE can you fix this issue?
It's the ONLY site I use with this problem.
Thanks

It’s not ‘a problem’
They are doing it on purpose.
It’s a trial. They have said so

Well, they can keep their new form of adverts as far as I am concerned. Most annoying, and more likely to put me off buying from the advertiser than to encourage me. Definitely counter-productive.

I'd like to know how long this annoying 'trial' will last. Do GNHQ actually take a blind bit of notice of what its readers/members think?

I'm particularly irritated by the video clips that appear in the main discussion stream. I never actually look at them, they serve no purpose at all other than to annoy.

As I click one off, another pops up.

They aren’t on Mumsnet.
I’m sure that won’t surprise anyone!

It,s Bl...dy infuriating who wants to be reminded that they are passed it. I'm getting videos about parenting 40 years too late dear. It will be funeral insurance next.

Hate hate hate all these pointless videos. Who actually is interested or looks? Please stop!

Mine appear in the little box where you insert text, and take up half of it, so I cant see what i'm writing.

I was just going to say they had calmed down, but as soon as I started to write... up one popped.

I have one asking if I'm "coping with dyslexia"?

No, I'm not, it just looks that way because my screen is obliterated.

The ads have actually cured me of checking GN on my phone as I cannot read the threads properly.

Now it’s iPad only (I have forgotten my login details so cannot use laptop)

Why are they advertising to us anyway? Most of us are older and don’t ‘collect’ things or random buy unnecessary things. They should advertise to all those rich working mummies on mumsnet. Tell you what, sales of iPads will go up because they are more or less advert free!

No adverts on my iPad.

Judging by the comments on this thread the trial results seem obvious - a resounding FAIL.

I'm trying to be patient and understand that GN needs the income from ads, but it's when they cover the space I'm trying to type in that I feel like shouting!!!
Gggggrrrrr...! 😲

nanna8

Why are they advertising to us anyway? Most of us are older and don’t ‘collect’ things or random buy unnecessary things. They should advertise to all those rich working mummies on mumsnet. Tell you what, sales of iPads will go up because they are more or less advert free!

Don’t say that!
No ads = no GN
That’s why they moved the Benefits forum. We need to be seen as prosperous to attract advertisers.
And I don’t know about Australia, but in many cases younger people are worse off financially here.
But how any of that justifies the odd nonsense on here is baffling

I thought something had changed, re: benefits forum.

Tsk!

MissAdventure

I have one asking if I'm "coping with dyslexia"?

No, I'm not, it just looks that way because my screen is obliterated.

I get that one all the time as well I think they know who I am and use spell check all the time.
It feels like big GRAN is watching you. I can now tell you how to make a pair of ears.

I can tell you about first time parenting, in return.

Nothing has changed. It is now nearly two months since GN commented on this thread. I just got an ad asking some children "What advice they would give the England eleven for the 2018 World Cup"!!!!!!!

The irony of it!!!!

Gransnet simply do not care. I’m sure sure this issue could/should be solved.

I still have PM Boris Johnson popping up to haunt me. Difficult to understand the point of these old clips as they’re not even adverts. Here he was a few minutes ago.

This is happening again. Adverts all over the place. I had to log in again in order to be able to post anything as well. GN Please do something about these bl***y adverts or I'm off!

Can anyone else see the ads? I've got Gordon Brown popping up all over the place now.

I`ve not been without them for months now, very irritating.

NotAGran55

No problem on my iPad either.

Same here, smug mode😋 being on the site on my phone is a whole different ballgame tho😖