Ads on pc

[dee_62]

Using the pc to access the site over the last couple of days and have had Wm Hill and PS4 ads sweeping in like pairs of curtains.  Full length with no apparent "X" to close them down.  I can scroll up and down the page still but can't click on anything below or to the side of them - have had to keep closing the window down.  Not even sure I'm hovvering over the ads all the time before they re-appear!

 

ETA using Chrome on a windows pc

[HibeeJibee]

Sounds like the problem is back, for posters like Nightmare at least.


Within the last 30mins the side adverts have disappeared for myself, and the forum content now fills the whole width of the screen.

Not sure if that's Mods switching the ads off again as a reaction to a problem, or if that's just the way it's going 'wrong' again for me.

[Scosha]

2 hours ago, Bishop Briggs said:

Click on install here - https://adblockplus.org/safari.

Cheers!

[Bishop Briggs]

53 minutes ago, dorlomin said:

Unusable. 

If you are referring to Adblock Plus on Safari, it works 100% for me. 

There are some sites, especially newspapers (such as the Gruaniad and Indy) that I visit rarely, that don't like it and try to block it. 

[Div]

Sorry guys, the ad agency are running new creatives that are supposed to go down both sides of the forum, like the screenshot below. These are causing some problems clearly.

I've isolated us down to a single ad unit on the site to see if that fixes the problem, please let me know if you have any problems after reading this post.

[rosso vendicatore]

Can't read anything due to M&S advert right through every screen on the  tablet and phone, About 20 refresh he's to write this

[Scosha]

I've got a similar issue on a MacBook using safari.

Just have to press refresh a couple of times to get rid of it but it comes back each time I use the site.

 

[mrcat1990]

Not exclusive to pc. When I go on the mobile site to check notifications have to deal with this.

[Jacksgranda]

I get them too. Lap top, fixed screen, no difference.

[HibeeJibee]

'Ditto'.

[WILLIEA]

Me too. Got to hit the back arrow to get rid.

[AyrshireTon]

Can the giant M&S ad please get to f**k?

[Stu]

Agreed. Was the same with the BMW one the other day. Takes over half the screen, there's no way to get rid of it and you don't seem to be able to click any of the forum links while it's up.

Perhaps this is part of div's cunning plan to increase the clicks the ads get.

[AyrshireTon]

It's gone now - looks to have slinked off behind the forum.

[Burnie_man]

Ditto, can't use the site this morning on the PC as you can't get rid of the f*cking M&S advert.

[Shanghai Loon]

13 minutes ago, Burnie_man said:

Ditto, can't use the site this morning on the PC as you can't get rid of the f*cking M&S advert.

Been like this on and off for days now. M&S just now but have had the same problem with BMW and PS4 ads. Only multiple refreshes seems to get rid of it.

Expect Ads with any site to be fair, but this is really starting to piss me off.

[Poo]

Using firefox and installed Adblock plus. Only takes several seconds and removes the issue completely.

[Jacksgranda]

2 minutes ago, Div said:

I've switched all adverts off on the site until Monday.

Maybe that's why it's disappeared - nothing to do with AdBlock!

[Scosha]

Had to use Firefox to get onto the site as I can't actually get past that daft M&S add on safari.

[Nightmare]

There's a Littlewoods advert that appears every single time I use Firefox on the PC, and it makes the website unreadable. And you can't close it either.

Get it to f**k, Div.

[Jacksgranda]

It's been absolutely horrendous this afternoon - is there no way of getting rid of them?