What's with the huge ad between the first post and its replies? Is it just me? Annoying!

It looks like Fodors has figured out a way to overide any adblock apps. These are the first ads I've ever had since installing an adblock.

Happening to me also

ditto. annoying.

you need to add a filter to adblock and can make them go away. Click on the dropdown menu for adblock (should be alittle stop sign-like icon on your tool bar with ABP in it). Select "open blockable items". Then choose one of the odb.outbrain lines, right click on it, select "block this item" and then choose one of the generic looking choices like odb.outbrain.com*. This should make them go away. it worked for me.

These do not appear to be new ads. It's the same old "MORE FROM FODORS / YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE" that used to be only at the page bottom.

They were never blocked, even with an ad blocker. They have just moved them up (as well as keeping them at the page bottom), so now we are forced to see them.

Agree it's annoying.

P.S. china_cat's method worked. Thanks!

I can't seem to apply china_cat's instructions to AdBlock on my Mac, so if anyone can figure that out, please post! (It's not the most annoying ad I've ever seen, but AdBlock usually works so well that I'm used to a clean screen.)

NewbE, I just did it on my Mac. Kind of how she said, although of course no "right click". But after doing drop down for AdBlock and choosing blockable items, I did scroll and find at "outbrain" one, highlighted it and another window came up allowing be to block it. Not sure exactly how I did that.
But it worked. Ads gone.

Thanks China!

Ah--thank you Neo! Having a slow morning I didn't grasp your instructions, but inadvertently found an easier way on my Mac:

two-finger click on the ad
a box pops up on the left with a slider button that you slide until the ad is gone
you confirm a couple of times and hey presto--clean screen again!

And this is easy to do if the ad pops up on another screen.

Thanks, all!

Agree - really irritating.

Seems like a small price to pay for visiting this site.

But if you don't HAVE TO pay that price, why would anyone want to?

Exactly! I am always mystified when people refuse to change something simple that they dislike. Don't get me started on the people who say they like the ads...

Yup me too. It's 4 INCHES of column space devoted to the ads, between the OP and where people reply.

And yes they appear to simply be what used to be at the bottom of the page, they've figured out how to wedge it onto the top of every single thread. Creative on their part.

I suppose getting commercials when you watch TV is a "small price to pay" for watching, but I can't imagine if there were a button you could push that would completely block out commercials and jump right over them, that many people wouldn't choose to push that button.

there is, Patrick, its the ff button on the DVR. Actually, so many people watch recorded TV now and skip the commercials that companies are doing much more with in-show product placement, and those stupid little bugs on the corner of the tv screen. We can't ff over that.

See this Fodor's ad thing is an interesting case. As long as the ads were at the bottom of the screen, they didn't bother me, and I left them there. As soon as they made them more visibile by moving them up, I blocked them so I never have to see them again. Wonder if this is a net-loss for the adviews? Maybe they should never have moved them.

Good point, china_cat. I think you're right.

We never watch anything in real time any more; well, other than World Cup soccer. Even if we watch the same night as a show is on, we record it and wait a half hour or so to start watching so we can speed through the commercials. Consequently, when people say "hey have you seen that commercial with the talking bear", we're like, nope.

Btw, just discovered that the ad looks like a$$ on a smartphone. The images are stretched, it wraps wrong.. Nice work, Fodor's! Not.