Forum running slow... ad related

[juggsy]

Nightmare on Safari/iPhone. Another thumbs up for Brave here!

[GR_TVR]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

This is all I get, with one ad blocker running it wouldn't even let me open PH with the other, the same half loaded page and the beachball of pain.

Safari on Macbook Pro

Mine looks exactly the same.
Using chrome seems to help as a temporary solution...

[Monkeylegend]

PH /CG are getting us used to the forums not working properly before the final showdown.

[fathomfive]

Another Brave convert here.

The site has never run as quickly.

[Hunky Dory]

fathomfive said:

Another Brave convert here.

The site has never run as quickly.

Same here - never used ad blockers before, but this has made me investigate and has opened my eyes. Won’t be going back now!

[Master Bean]

I'm on this Brave thing. Much better.

[NotNormal]

Came in here as, like many other posters, the site was becoming impossible to use.

Thanks for the Brave tips chaps, just installed and the site has never run so fast on my phone.

[Mercury00]

I'm glad it's not just me having problems - twenty seconds to load one page of text!

[Dracoro]

I had 1Blocker but checked it as a result of this thread and noticed it was no longer being updated.

Replaced with Ad Guard and all good (so far).

Underlying issue is silly amount of ads/trackers as others have highlighted. Self defeating from website owners as just makes more people install ad blockers.

[brickwall]

Switched to Brave. Working great.

[droopsnoot]

Going slow for me too, on IE and Adblock plus, the latter was I only installed to get around the last time it started running slowly.

[Murph7355]

Chrome on Android. Site's pretty much unusable.

Other site's all fine.

[FiF]

Well another user here who had stuck it out not using an ad blocker for years. Essentially recognised that a site such as this has to earn income from somewhere. However another convert to Brave and adblocking. Well done boys.

[thebraketester]

forum mod/admin said:

Nothing.....

Great... thank you for looking into this issue that EVERYONE is having..... much appreciated.


[/sarcasm]

[Murph7355]

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!

Blimey. Properly fast!

I wouldn't say "fast", but also tried this and it's now usable.

First the stty shortcuts bar at the bottom, now trashing performance with ads... New dev team needed PH.

[funkyrobot]

Using Brave now. So quick!

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cargurus won't be happy.

[rigga]

Probably Haymarket in one last ditch attempt to generate funds before sale, flood the site with adds, but make It so unusable, user's migrate to a browser that block's the proposed fund generators ... couldn't make it up.

[Pesty]

So I’ve not been able to open the site on the iPad for a few days.
Finally decided to try on the phone and eventually it opens. iPad just sits there half page open buttons dead.

I see you are using something called brave. Great iPad memory nearly full. I’m guessing that’s the issue so I’ve just dl brave and working straight away. Even less memory awesome.

Edited by Pesty on Thursday 6th December 18:43

[Dracoro]

As per post earlier. Ad Guard works well so far and means you can carry on using Safari.

[Pesty]

Thanks. This is working for now

Wow this is so fast, back on ipad now. No ads at. All well done Ph completely causing the opposite f what you want to happen.