It’s dreadful. Also makes using the toolbar at bottom of the page hard. Someone didn’t do their homework on this one.
The ad/grey box on my phone and computer keeps popping in and out/refreshing the ad every time I change the page. That is what makes it particularly annoying to me.
Well…it’s annoying to have an ad pop up every ten seconds…with a X to X it off. It’s just annoying.
There IS an ad bar that is at the bottom of my page…that isn’t popping up in the screen I’m reading. It’s below the text box.
What we are all complaining about are pop ups…after pop ups that just keep on coming…above your permanent ad, that need to be X’d out.
I’ll take a screen shot and send next time it pops up.
(Although while I was typing this…it seemed to stop…)
I’m on a computer using IE and keep getting a gray box that can be X’d out. I guess my pop up blocker is keeping the ad from coming through.
Sometimes the ad space is see through and the page is scrolling behind it (beneath the bar with the symbols on it for mail, etc). So that is weird and hard to read.
And sometimes the ad partially covers the box when I am typing a response. That is annoying. The keyboard already takes ~half the page. Stick an ad on it, and there isn’t much left.
And in general - the real estate for the site is now very compressed and overwhelmed by ads too much of the time.
I just sent you a screen shot. You will easily be able to see your permanent ad…AND the pop up with the X.
It’s half covering the words “previous” and “save draft”
iPad Air, most recent IOS update.
This just started today.
Oh. And just realized, when I hit the sprocket to edit, the bar to click to move forward and edit is hidden behind the ad. This was NOT a well tested “enhancement”.
Very annoying. Nevertheless, these pop up ads might be a bit more exciting, and somewhat more tolerable, if required to use the word “Ivy” in each ad.
@3scoutsmom Yes. It is just that annoying.
I can see having those annoying ads for people reading without logging in. But it you are logged in, it makes for an aggravating user experience bc the ads block functionality of the site.
Yup, I turned on my pop-up blocker, and the ads stay at the bottom of the page, but I still have a grey box that needs to be x’d. Using Chrome.
I will add to the sentiment that they are super annoying.
agree with everyone else. Bad decision by all concerned to do this. Just makes me want to leave the site, which I am going to do right now.
AND I have the option to X out this annoying ad…so I do. But then another one appears. I x that put…and another appears.
I got 8 different ads EIGHT all pop ups with an X out…while trying to read one forum.
If I X something out…it’s because I don’t want it there…not because I want to have a different ad there.
I just want to note that rarely is there such uniformity of opinion on CC! Something needs to be done to improve this.
It’s a revolving pop up.
In less than five minutes I got all of these…one right after another as I was trying to read multiple forums.
Price Chopper
Livin Well Bird Pest Control
California Dream Big
Alfa Romeo
EF Eco Flow River Portable Power Station
All State
Kiss My Keto Protein Powder
Seriously…nine different pop up adds and that is in addition to the permanent one that is already AT the bottom of this forum page.
I will add to the sentiment that they are super annoying.
So…in total…I now have the one ad at the top. One ad on the side in the menu bar…and TWO ads at the bottom…TWO at the bottom…
Is that what everyone else is seeing? iPad.
Just one ad at the bottom on my laptop, but the incessant pop-ups are as very annoying as you described.
@thumper1 Thats what I have too but I’m getting different ads than you are. It’s very visually distracting and giving me a headache. I’m on a windows lap top.
Yes, very annoying new feature.