Is there something more odd than ususal with the ad server?

[drivin_me_nuts]

Not a critism, more an observation.

I'm using firefox. The ads seem to stall the page half way down through loading and prevent the pages loading seamlesly (noticible 2-3 second pause sometimes)

I am sure it was not like this until very recently?

</confused>

[rfn]

Had this issue for a bit, before I got fed up. 6 months ago I instsalled Adblock. No more ads.

[Mr Will]

Sometimes we get an advert which loads slowly on certain machines. If you can spot which one is doing it then let me know and I will get it removed

[dilbert]

I'm getting this quite a bit TBH.
It used to be specific ads for sure.
I'm not certain it's the ads now though, because it seems to happen randomly.
I'd say it's happening once every 10-15 clicked links.
I just kill the browser and fire up a new one, but I'm getting a bit hacked off with it.

[DAVEVO9]

rfn said:

Had this issue for a bit, before I got fed up. 6 months ago I instsalled Adblock. No more ads.

Adblock gets my vote too.. I don't see any adverts at all anywhere!

[Mr Will]

dilbert said:

I'm getting this quite a bit TBH.
It used to be specific ads for sure.
I'm not certain it's the ads now though, because it seems to happen randomly.
I'd say it's happening once every 10-15 clicked links.
I just kill the browser and fire up a new one, but I'm getting a bit hacked off with it.

I'll keep an eye out for it, but as the ads servers are outside our direct control there is a limit to what we can do.

[trooperiziz]

Mr Will said:

dilbert said:

I'm getting this quite a bit TBH.
It used to be specific ads for sure.
I'm not certain it's the ads now though, because it seems to happen randomly.
I'd say it's happening once every 10-15 clicked links.
I just kill the browser and fire up a new one, but I'm getting a bit hacked off with it.

I'll keep an eye out for it, but as the ads servers are outside our direct control there is a limit to what we can do.

You could... I dunno... not have ads served in the middle of the page? It's always these ones that cause the page to hang halfway through loading

[Mr Will]

Changing the pages so that the ads load last is on the to-do list, but unfortunately it is a complicated change that will take a lot of time and effort to complete, so it is unlikely to happen for a while yet.

[drivin_me_nuts]

.. middle of the page... Post Office.

[V8mate]

Mr Will said:

Sometimes we get an advert which loads slowly on certain machines. If you can spot which one is doing it then let me know and I will get it removed

The NSPCC 'video' always stalls my page load. And the 'click' noise it makes every few seconds is fecking annoying too!

[Mr Will]

I'll pass the complaints on and see what we can do

[Simpo Two]

V8mate said:

The NSPCC 'video' always stalls my page load. And the 'click' noise it makes every few seconds is fecking annoying too!

I expect the strategy is that you will hear the click, think 'Wow, great idea, I'll click on it!' and then donate money or whatever it is they're after.


It's quite amusing to reverse engineer an advert and outwit the people who thought it up

[Mr Will]

Simpo Two said:

...outwit the people who thought it up

quite often it is not particularly hard!

[H2DaE]

I keep getting this at work

It was the T Mobile one this morning that was doing it, as soon as it loaded it would hang internet explorer and slow the whole system down until you cross off PH.

The only problem with that is that when you close the PH window for some reason it closes all the other IE windows too, and since most of my work systems run on it it closes pretty much everything and i have to log off and on.

Damn annoying and I can't run an ad blocker at work, sort it out PH!

ETA guess what happened as soon as i posted this

Edited by H2DaE on Monday 1st December 11:30