# Drop down ad interfering with the menu bar **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750 "2021-10-02T23:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/1 "2021-10-02T23:24:05Z")
Recently there has been a drop down ad that covers the Car Talk menu bar as you scroll down a topic. It requires scrolling all the way back to the top of the topic before it disappears and reveals the menu bar. This is getting very annoying. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/2 "2021-10-02T23:30:22Z")
I just noticed an X at the right side just under the drop down ad that makes it disappear. That helps but still annoying. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/3 "2021-10-02T23:35:02Z")
My solution is the same as Keith’s, click on the little “x” at the bottom right of the ad. That “x” is not in a place you expect it to be, so placing it there is sort of a trick. But once that’s cyphered, easy to get rid of. And remember those ads are at least partly paying for this website. I should add, if anybody is interested in my opinion, I prefer the way the ads have been displayed for some time , rather than overlaying the page, in-between the posts. Or at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/4 "2021-10-03T00:22:30Z")
Agreed. Pop up ads that conceal the menu bar are unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/5 "2021-10-03T00:28:50Z")
I don’t have that problem I use a free ad blocker called Easy Ad Blocker windows 10 with Google Chrome. > [@asemaster](#): > > Agreed. Pop up ads that conceal the menu bar are unacceptable. All ads are unacceptable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/6 "2021-10-03T02:54:07Z")
Chromebook here, when I scroll up the ad goes away. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/7 "2021-10-06T21:33:15Z")
When I scrolled up, it did not go away until I was all the way to the top. Mac, Safari. But I don’t see a drop down ad anymore. They come up from the bottom like they used to. ---
**Author:** ![wentwest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wentwest/32/6073_2.png) [@wentwest](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wentwest)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/8 "2021-10-07T03:37:24Z")
Just another reminder that these services are not free. They are ad carriers and they accumulate data about you that is sold to others. I think Google is now the country’s largest ad agency, but haven’t researched it. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/9 "2021-10-08T22:45:21Z")
They seem to be gone now, that was our punishment for complaining that popping up on the bottom covered the reply button🤪 ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/drop-down-ad-interfering-with-the-menu-bar/179750/10 "2021-10-09T20:39:19Z")
I don’t mind them coming up from the bottom, that never bother me for some reason. But just a suggestion here, there is a lot of unused real estate on the right side of the screen that most other web sites rent out for ads. Just saying, I can ignore the ones to the right just as easily as I ignore the ones at the bottom.