Hmmm...if you were on a windows machine I'd say you'd picked up one of those horrible self installing ad generators.

Given ads seem to have disappeared entirely (anyone seeing them?) I wonder if someone hacked the advert feed (this happened a lot on sportnetwork) and the ads have been taken down.

Anyone suffering at the moment?

Still happening for me on a Windows laptop.  Luckily, my Internet Security program takes the pop up pages down each time, but it's pretty disappointing.

Every time I touch the screen I get diverted to ads. Just tapped reply and went to some ad site. On iPad, very annoying.

Do you use the ipad like a big mobile phone or a desktop type thing? I'm struggling to understand why some people are having issues and I'm not. I don't have problems on my mobile phone, I don't have problems on my laptop, I don't have problems on my desktop. I have the adblocker turned off on this site specifically so I can see ad type issues.

Are you getting this behaviour accessing other sites? And have you done the famous "clear cache and cookies" move after rebooting the ipad but before using the browser?

Ok. I installed Adblock plus from the App Store, configured it in less than a minute and the problem disappeared. I was pretty sure those ads were the problem. Suggest anyone suffering this in either windows or iOS downloads an ad blocker.

I will still report this however.

On Iexplore I turned on "Manage add-ons", "Tracking Protection" and turned on a list called EasyList Address http://easylist-msie.RemoveAdblock.com/easylist.tpl and the problem ads disappeared. So play around with tracking protection and see if that solves it.

Yup, the Chrome adblocker does it for my PC. Thanks. It was getting annoying.