Adverts making forum unusable on smartphone!

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FfionWinnie

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I can't even scroll to a different area of the forum to post this because every time I do an advert video automatically opens on the screen and starts playing.

They are also constantly playing in the bits between posts.

Sort it out HHO, this will be KILLING people's data allowances for a start, not to mention being highly irritating.
 
I thought it was just me this morning! I've had celebrity magic videos popping up every time I tap the screen to read something!
 
That video ad is ridiculous! I was feeding the baby in bed at 4 am this morning and it went off on the iPad making such a racket! I have them blocked on PC, but absolutely hate sites that stream videos without you clicking on them!
 
I thought it was just me! I refuse to access the forum on my phone until the videos are removed as I have a tight data allowance.
 
Agree. Can't swipe a page without catching one and then you can't blooming get back to what you were trying to look at.
I'm not sure if it would work better, but there is an app called tapatalk (I think) that's design for viewing forums. It might help with the display. I've never used it but my husband does and likes it.
 
FfionWinnie said:
I can't even scroll to a different area of the forum to post this because every time I do an advert video automatically opens on the screen and starts playing.

They are also constantly playing in the bits between posts.



Sort it out HHO, this will be KILLING people's data allowances for a start, not to mention being highly irritating.
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Oh Lord yes thought it was just me! Playing now as I type and I'm on my IPad - tres annoying !!
 
I can't even scroll to the bottom of this thread! No matter where I touch the screen an ad pops up and starts playing video. Hopefully they can sort it soon - I'll be taking a break from the board until then!
 
Same here - really annoying and getting to the point that I don't want to use forum! Come on HHO - bad move, it makes us hate the advertiser not want to buy from them - this form of advertising just doesn't work!!!
 
I posted about this last night in Club House. Like you say it does make the forum unusable, even if I stop the video & close it down the second you tap on the screen it reopens.
I came back this morning hoping they would be gone, but even typing this its reopened 5 times!!

I'm out. Until it's sorted I won't be be back. Which is a shame as this place can be fun 😕
 
Almost unusable on my iPhone. It was bad enough before just trying not to accidentally touch an advert whilst scrolling, but whatever's going on now is a big headache.

I understand advertising revenue is needed to fund what I think is normally a great forum, but there's a fine line. The companies who are currently advertising certainly won't be having my custom. Right- going to try and post this without seeing someone called Ollie pop on my screen for the hundredth time :(
 
I find that once I hit the video by mistake, I can't get rid of it and get back to the forum so end up closing the whole page and not bothering. I won't be on the forum on my iPhone until it's sorted so see you all after the weekend!
 
I've not got this on my Nokia windows phone or my Ipad. I haven't updated my iPad to the latest iOS yet, though, (9.02?), maybe that's the difference?

Plus if you download Chrome onto the iPad, ablock will do what it says, so I now view the forum in Chrome.

Annoying ads are a big, big turn off, hope you peeps get sorted soon.

ETA I've just opened HHO in a new tab in Safari, and whilst the usual ads are there, there's no random videos playing.
 
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Same problem and I have no idea what the ads are about as the only thing I'm interested in is where the close icon is :)
 
Lol I didn't have much of a problem til last night either.

Its fine on my iPad. Neither have been updated yet so I'm not sure how it randomly chooses those to torment.

I have absolutely no idea what the adverts are about either.
 
I had this problem yesterday with my Android phone but thought it was just my phone because it's quite old. I couldn't view anything at all because if I touched any part of the screen a video tried to play. I don't know why but my phone wouldn't play the video so at least it didn't eat all my data (hitting the back button didn't close the video and there was no "close" button or "X" to tap. I closed the window and opened a new one to load up the forum and it was fine then but I was only on it for 5min so no idea if it would've started up with the videos again.
 
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