IJN":1sqhnpf0 said:
Am I being dim. Why not simply scroll just above it?
Honestly chaps I suffer none of this hovering stuff. At the bottom of the site is an advert. I don’t even pay attention to it. As I say I touch the screen just above it and I’ve never ever clicked on it by accident.
I am on a PC now where that is possible, but on my Android phone, the advert scrolls up and takes up about a third of the screen wherever you scroll. The facility to reply to a post is at the bottom of the screen, as is the pop up keyboard which makes for a very congested area with that advert, borderline unusable at times. As oldage says, some are bizarre adverts entirely in mandarin, and when you click the cross to get rid of it, it reappears in 5 seconds. You will click the adverts by mistake because they hover just over the screen just as you are typing or pressing submit, making using the site quite frustrating.
As for the person who says #welcometothe21stcentury, I haven't found any other website (in any century) except maybe the Plymouth Herald quite as irritating, and I haven't used that website for years because of it.