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Worried_of_wakefield

Does this irritate anyone else? it drives me mad, it kicks in everytime I change page, I dont wish to know that Taylor Swift has broken a finger nail! the site is becoming un-readable.

Anyone have a fix, one more week of this and I shall have to change my news home page to Sky?(or do they also have this nonsense popping up constantly?)

paddyrg

Sky is worse for it in my opinion

bsms1147

Should be possible to block the banner with an ad-blocker. Select the element when it appears and tell the ad-blocker to block it.

interstellaflyer

Whilst Ad-Blocker is good, I find in some cases ie when reading news articles, you get a banner across the screen telling you to turn ad-blocker off to take full advantage of the site, which is equally annoying.

hans_2

add this entry to your hosts file:

0.0.0.0 polling.bbc.co.uk

Benners123

Hi,

I fully sympathise with you about this, though I must ask... Why does Taylor Swift's nail status not interest you!?!?

Joking aside, I know where you're coming from navigating through the site only for the breaking to appear on each screen, once you press X it should not appear again in my opinion.

Are there any other suggestions for removing it?

forgotmyname

They spoilt the Android BBC news app also. I downloaded an older copy and installed that back to my phone. I wont update any of the BBC apps now.

coffeehound

Worried_of_wakefield wrote: »

Does this irritate anyone else? it drives me mad, it kicks in everytime I change page, I dont wish to know that Taylor Swift has broken a finger nail! the site is becoming un-readable.

I'm often irritated by online attention-getters, but don't find this one too bad to be honest – one click and it's gone.

Sooler

interstellaflyer wrote: »

Whilst Ad-Blocker is good, I find in some cases ie when reading news articles, you get a banner across the screen telling you to turn ad-blocker off to take full advantage of the site, which is equally annoying.

You need this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/

Hide any element you chose.

Kendall80

Worried_of_wakefield wrote: »

Does this irritate anyone else? it drives me mad, it kicks in everytime I change page, I dont wish to know that Taylor Swift has broken a finger nail! the site is becoming un-readable.

Anyone have a fix, one more week of this and I shall have to change my news home page to Sky?(or do they also have this nonsense popping up constantly?)

Did she? Which one?

More4me

What's even more annoying is while reading a news item about Taylor Swift's broken nail, a breaking news banner pops up and says TS has broken a nail.
What another one?