This is my experience too. SDMB is dead to my iPhone. Such a shame. If you had ads that worked, I’d willingly suffer through them. Your ads have disabled your site though, not earned money for it.
Jophiel, did you have better luck with another phone browser?
I can’t get on the SDMB with my phone at all. Tried it twice, something hijacked my phone, it made noise, and it would not go away until I shut down the phone. Will not be trying that again.
No, it was not the fault of my phone. That has never happened anywhere else.
I will definitely not buy anything from companies whose ads annoy me. By “annoy” I mean, essentially disable the screen on MY computer, blocking content until I click through. Not clicking through, okay? I’m out of there and I’m not buying your product. Okay, I bought a Toyota, but I bought it from its previous owner, not from a dealer.
I was reading this weeks column and had this ad open up on my I pad. It’s so terribly fake and misleading that I have to report it. It is meant to look like a CNN story and constantly drops famous names of poeople who are endorsing it…John Stewart, Anderson cooper, Steven hawking, etc. I actually think it’s bad enough to be illegal. Can you guys monitor or eliminate this product from your advertisers?
Hey! Charter Member, SDSAB, and I didn’t even get ads during my suspension. Why do I have them now? I paid my debt to society. 
You’re showing as a guest.
I know. Grrrrrrr!
ETA: It’s not like the ads are nearly as annoying as people claim, even on this 7" tablet, but it’s the (sniff) principle.
I recently started using the mobile version of the SDMB, and I’m getting many popup ads that cover a significant fraction of the screen that I can’t close. The ads have a nice prominent black X, but when I touch it, that ends up opening brand new tab to whatever the ad site is, not closing the ad. Occasionally, I manage to hit the X exactly just so and the ad closes, but most of the time, I can’t do it and have to live with it covering a bunch of screen real estate or I have to refresh the screen and hope I get no ad, or a different ad that doesn’t cover so much screen.
I’m wondering if it’s a case of “the black X, it does nothing!” with the ads actually being borderline malware.
If it matters, I’m using Chrome on an Android LG G3.
Right now I’m sitting at my desktop and typing this post while looking at the dope on my mobile, but of course since I started typing the ads have gone away and I don’t recall which were the worst offenders. The lastest popup ad I saw was for the DC lottery. I saw several of them, and my several attempts to close them all failed but the final one succeeded. Its only blessing was it was a relatively small one, only covering maybe just the bottom 1/4 of the screen or a bit less.
Thanks for letting us know. If you can recall a specific ad or ads that had this issue, any details would be very helpful. There might indeed be some ads where the X does nothing, but if we don’t know what ads to look at, it’s hard for us to say.
I have also forwarded what info you posted to our admins so that they can look into it further.
I’m at the airport, using Firefox in my phone. I try to search for new threads. But there are ads accepts a third of the screen, the whole thing refreshes painfully slowly, and it turns out i clicked “calendar” instead of “new threads”. So i try again.
“Sorry, you need to wait 120 minutes between searches.”
Really? Really grrrrrrr.
Right now I have a Reebok ad that won’t close no matter how many times or how carefully I press X. It only covers a small portion of my screen, so not a huge problem, but I can’t switch forums through the bar at the bottom of the page. I’m using Chrome on an Android.
I want to report an issue with an ad that has an embedded video that autoplays when I load a page on SDMB. The ad is for Sally Hansen nail care products. I have tried using the options in the ad (ad covers content; see the ad too often; etc.) to see the ad less or preferably never, but the ad keeps loading on new pages.
It wouldn’t be so bad except for the ad video autoplay… I’m listening to music on my phone and reading the Dope, but every time the ad autoplays it turns off my music while the ad plays. That part is unacceptable.
Whatever ad the SDMB is now running causes colored borders to appear on all sides of the board, top, bottom, right & left. Using Safari on an iPhone.
Why is this the only website I visit that has such sloppy and intrusive ads? It can’t be difficult to actually fix it
Ever go to snopes.com? I can’t visit there using my older iPad.
There’s now a gigantic black video ad at the bottom of the screen. https://ibb.co/djvd8J
theres a rather obnoxious chipotle restaurant ad that follows you on the mobile version I don’t know if its on the pc site because I never log out ……
Yeah, I came here to bitch about the Chipotle ad too. Takes up too much screen, doesn’t go away, resizes your text if you are zoomed in or out (out to be able to read more text because the Chipotle ad takes up about 20% of the screen), and has a little ‘x’ to dismiss the ad THAT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK.
I was a SDMB until ed fired me, when I became a gueßt. Bite me.
It took you 3 1/2 months to come up with that? Spend all that time figuring out the “ß”?
Consider yourself bitten.
Logging in gives me australian specific scam about bitcoin and saying " as seen on " australian TV shows/channels.
URL is
(spamlinkbroken - Rico)
Appearing on channel 10’s hit show, Shark Tank, two best friends from university pitched their idea for an automated bitcoin trading platform, called Bitcoin Code. The idea was simple: allow the average person the opportunity to cash in on the bitcoin boom. Even if they have absolutely no investing or technology experience.
A user would simply make an intial deposit into the platform, usually of $250 or more, and the automated trading algorithm would go to work.
Because they can sell all 7 billion people on the planet a scheme to get rich quick… everyone will be rich (rich in terms of in lots of bogus " make lots of money quick" schemes. Poor in money.)
Your comment on this Australian ad is noted, and we thank you. I’m forwarding to the ad department. The staff at The Straight Dope has no direct control over the ads but we can report what our users are seeing.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva