Forum running slow... ad related

[juggsy]

V8mate said:

juggsy said:

Nope made no changes whatsoever. I see the app has been updated recently though, have tried the block script setting which is successful but as mentioned may block other functionality

PH has 'other functionality'?

[DukeDickson]

V8mate said:

Mine is still fine.

Maybe the reason that no-one at PH has responded to this thread is because they have all been working furiously on a Brave-workaround, to ensure that no-one escapes the st service they want all members to suffer?

Sad state of affairs.

Personally, I can live with a few bits of bks clickbait that I'm not going to bother with, but when it is implemented in such a half-assed way as to make a site perilously close to unusable, power hogging & so on, not a healthy situation.

Having to download and use a specific browser with ad-blocking (that from the sounds of it might work in the future) is not going to end well.
It would be nice or slightly surprising if anyone involved actually had a clue about anything, but guess that's never going to happen now. Anything & everything goes for a few more clicks and some more short-term income.

[crofty1984]

Thanks for the brave recommendation! Thought my phone was dying!

[saaby93]

The PH ads seem to be bypassing the ublock origin adblocker?

[LordGrover]

Nothing's getting past my defences, such as they are.

[thebraketester]

[dhutch]

Well whatever they have just done this afternoon has killed it for me. Taken 15mins to navigate here and post this.

Saw a flicker of an advert (using brave so normally don't) and it's like browsing in 1998 again! Page loads partially, scrolls but can't click, then you randomly ended up on a totally different thread to the one you wanted. Repeat.


Daniel

[dhutch]

dhutch said:

Well whatever they have just done this afternoon has killed it for me. Taken 15mins to navigate here and post this.

Saw a flicker of an advert (using brave so normally don't) and it's like browsing in 1998 again! Page loads partially, scrolls but can't click, then you randomly ended up on a totally different thread to the one you wanted. Repeat.


Daniel

Might just have unticked 'blocked scrips' but man, if that's what the general public sees it's amazing anyone uses the site at all!

Daniel

[cornershop]

dhutch said:

Well whatever they have just done this afternoon has killed it for me. Taken 15mins to navigate here and post this.

Saw a flicker of an advert (using brave so normally don't) and it's like browsing in 1998 again! Page loads partially, scrolls but can't click, then you randomly ended up on a totally different thread to the one you wanted. Repeat.


Daniel

https://duckduckgo.com/app

I’m using this like it was 2017

[Jonesy23]

Still apparently working OK for me.

Windows - Firefox + UBlock Origin + Noscript; no ads.

Android - Firefox + UBlock Origin; no obvious ads. Maybe a fragment of frame from something at the bottom depending on mode. Have had the occasional lockup when putting text in (requiring a hard kill), seems random and has been that way for ages.

Guess it depends on how thorough you blocking is and also a bit of luck on mobile.

[Jack Mansfield]

Hi all,

We are aware of the very slow running, and agree it is extremely annoying! I'm just waiting for an update on this so will provide more information when I know more.

Apologies again.

Jack

[Mr Whippy]

Waiting for an update

You're not using PH forums to manage PH are you?

[98elise]

Jack Mansfield said:

Hi all,

We are aware of the very slow running, and agree it is extremely annoying! I'm just waiting for an update on this so will provide more information when I know more.

Apologies again.

Jack

Its not just the speed though. It's the navigation to random threads that's also a big issue.

[WinstonWolf]

WinstonWolf said:

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.

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...

Worth a re-quote, this solves the issue completely.

[thebraketester]

Its only taken 2 weeks to get any sort of response to this issue........

[Doofus]

98elise said:

Its not just the speed though. It's the navigation to random threads that's also a big issue.

It's the same problem.

[Mr Whippy]

uMatrix and just allow the Google API script.

Nothing runs except what originates with PH.


But since many use a mobile phone these days all these 'fixes' are worthless.

I hope PH goes broke, Haymarket loses a load of money, and the forums can be sold for 1p to someone with a brain.

[Doofus]

Mr Whippy said:

I hope PH goes broke, Haymarket loses a load of money, and the forums can be sold for 1p to someone with a brain.

Haymarket have already sold PH. Keep up!

[Mr Whippy]

Ah.

So who owns it today?

A spam web advert company

[Doofus]

Mr Whippy said:

Ah.

So who owns it today?

A spam web advert company

The new owners are people I'd never even heard of a week ago, which suggests that advertising isn't their thing.