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Doofus said:
Whatever they did for a hour and a half yesterday has completely fked it more/again.
Same here. Is clunky at the best of times but whatever happened yesterday made it worse.Why do they insist on trying to write their own forum software anyway?why not an off the shelf product like v bulletin. Got to wonder if the functionality of the PH forum is this flaky what are they like at security..
eltawater said:
Key javascript culprits appear to originate from:
stats.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com (38 requests!)
images.outbrainimg.com
widgets.outbrain.com
Looks like there's some page shifting involved somewhere (trying to resize to put some big banner ads in?) which ultimately leaves you tapping / clicking on one thing, but the delay in loading the page means that by the time it's worked out you've clicked, the page has shifted down downwards, so you end up at a topic 4-5 lines above where you've clicked.
If you can make changes to your dns locally, point outbrain.com and outbrainimg.com to 127.0.0.1 and the problem will be resolved for all devices on your network. As I run a Windows dns locally it's an easy fix.stats.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com (38 requests!)
images.outbrainimg.com
widgets.outbrain.com
Looks like there's some page shifting involved somewhere (trying to resize to put some big banner ads in?) which ultimately leaves you tapping / clicking on one thing, but the delay in loading the page means that by the time it's worked out you've clicked, the page has shifted down downwards, so you end up at a topic 4-5 lines above where you've clicked.
You can also do it on an individual PC by adding the following two entries in your hosts file
127.0.0.1 outbrain.com
127.0.0.1 outbrainimg.com
Instructions for editing hosts here
https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/modify-your-h...
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
MDMA . said:
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
Doofus said:
MDMA . said:
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
Thanks!
remedy said:
Doofus said:
MDMA . said:
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
Thanks!
bazza white said:
remedy said:
Doofus said:
MDMA . said:
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
Thanks!
That is disgusting.
bazza white said:
remedy said:
Doofus said:
MDMA . said:
V8mate said:
I've switched from Chrome to Brave on my (Android) phone for built-in, ad-free access, as Chrome's ad block doesn't come across to the mobile version.
PH is much zippier now!
Just given your suggestion a try. Works perfect now. No issues at all and no fking Outbrain adds taking half the page up now too!PH is much zippier now!
Thanks!
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