Blank white screen still happening on mobile site about 50% of the time. There is now also a Red Bull advert that not only puts a pop up along the edges of the screen that you have to close, but then it still has a third bar at the bottom obscuring more of the page that has a close button that doesn't always work.
For the first time, this hit me on Firefox on the iPad. Some damned "Prodigal Son on Fox" ad...and it's non-stop.
Just checked the forum on my phone and the ads are STILL a major problem which doesn't let you use the site. Do the advertisers know that their ad/customer experience is so poor?
It's a shame they aren't going to fix this.
I think I have come to the conclusion in my opinion from what I am seeing here, and especially in the three posts above. It seems to me that the web server or some JS was not configured properly for displaying the correct layout for mobile browsers. The server or JS does detect the mobile browser, and does display the correct forum layout that the site developers wanted, however in my opinion the web developers forgot something. I think they forgot to configure the JS or the forum web server to tell the ad site that it is mobile browser. Another very likely possibility is that the ad provider web server or developers just never did any configuration for specific device types, thus every request for an ad, the server will think that it is a PC that is sending the request.
The reason why I am coming to such a conclusion is because, on Firefox mobile if one does view desktop site in the drop down browser menu, the ad issue does not exist. The reason being that the AnandTech webpage is configured for showing the style on the page as a desktop, and mobile browsers usually scale things down in such mode, thus the ads are also somewhat scaled down.
Another reason why I came to such a conclusion was due to the screenshots of the black ad covering the page. When looking at such screenshots, I saw that bellow the large replay like sign, it says "Scroll Down to see Page". The terminology of "Scroll" usually is used for PC's not phones or tablets. Now one might say that the just flicking down should do the trick, however that is not always the case. Under some JS and CSS conditions of the webpage, the ad could just be acting like an overlay on top of the actual webpage. Under certain circumstances, the ad might have its layout measured in "pt" or in actual measurements rather than inches. In these cases where the ad is set for PCs mostly, due to the overlay issue flicking down would in reality move the page down, however the overlay is too large for the mobile or tablet screen and thus seems as if it is still covering the page.
I do not think it is an AnandTech issue, but rather its an issue over at the ad providers end.