Ads on my desktop monitor don't cause any issues for me. It's on the iPhone that things are really nasty. I get poised to hit a link and puff a popup moves everything and my finger activates some random link. The worst is how long it takes to load one of the forums on the iPhone. Much of the time it sits with a partial bar for so long that I give up. The rest of HMax is fine, just forums that take forever, if ever, to load in my iPhone. It works fine on my Windows desktop. Of course most of my access attempts are via iPhone which has become nearly useless for HM forums.