Annoying Ab Adverts

[Hymie]

For sometime now, whenever I open an Ab question, the first reply/post is partially obscured by an advertisement. The position of this advertisement moves, such that scrolling up or down results in the advert tracking the first answer – continuing to obscure it. There appears to be no way of removing the advert; clicking on the advert opens an additional window within the browser (to the advertiser’s site) – but the ad remains obscuring the answer.

Do any Abers know how to get rid of the annoying adverts?

Is it now the policy of Ab to deliberately annoy its users?

[pastafreak]

Try putting this in the Editors Blog...he'll have the techies look into it.
Of course...there's always ad bloc (or some such thing)

[murraymints]

EEK Pasta !! wash thy mooth oot wi' carbolic soap !!!

[tonyav]

Ohhhh pasta said the naughty word !!!!!!!

[DTCwordfan]

is that a pic of your dad, bless him, minty, handing out the soap?

[Hymie]

Pastafreak, if only I could read your answer.

[murraymints]

yup DT.. offering up a chip ! lol...bless him x

[melv16]

Ad bloc won't work on my smartphone and the normal site will work for about 5mins before crashing. So I'm stuck with AB mobile, which is ***.

[Old_Geezer]

Is this a PC or a mobile device ?

I don't have the issues but I'm aware that some evil ads expend if the mouse cursor hovers over them.

I'm wondering if you have a malware infection.

For a "smart" phone you need to root it and then find something that will block data from certain web addresses. Not for the faint-hearted but since the resources on a mobile are fewer than on a proper PC maybe justified in the handset is out of warranty.

[hc4361]

Melv, try using the Opera browser on your smartphone. It has a built in adblocker

[RATTER15]

If this is happening on your mobile, just turn your mobile the other way up and back again. So from portrait to landscape or from landscape to portrait. it always works for me.

[fiction-factory]

^ now that's an annoying advert

[Baldric]

Reported