ad killing usability

[pkondz]

There's an ad at the bottom of the page that looks like this:

See that black box of death in the middle?
It loads a new video ad every 15 seconds or so.
Every time it does, it takes anywhere from 0-60 seconds to load.
Every time it does, the DIS stops working, or works
v....e........r............r...............y......... s...........l..............o................w..........l...........y

(was that hard to read? Imagine it 100x worse and that's the DIS.)

I'm using MS Edge as a browser and have disabled Flash.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

There's an ad at the bottom of the page that looks like this:

See that black box of death in the middle?
It loads a new video ad every 15 seconds or so.
Every time it does, it takes anywhere from 0-60 seconds to load.
Every time it does, the DIS stops working, or works
v....e........r............r...............y......... s...........l..............o................w..........l...........y

(was that hard to read? Imagine it 100x worse and that's the DIS.)

I'm using MS Edge as a browser and have disabled Flash.

Do you have an adblocker? That would help.

 

[pkondz]

Do you have an adblocker? That would help.

No. Recommendations?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

No. Recommendations?

I had my son install AdBlocker Plus. It's free and really seems to have cut down on the ads here. Well, except for the DISboards generated ones.

 

[pkondz]

Thanks! I'll look into that one.

 

[BrianL]

This ad is killing me too. It causes slow loading pages and crashes a lot. It also seems to try to scroll the page down to it every time and I can't scroll up. I am using Chrome. This seems to be a new thing and it really needs to be addressed. Thanks.

 

[tinkerone]

Agreed! It just started a few days ago for me and it is soooooo annoying! I have to keep my computer on mute or I hear the ads and as a pp said, it loads every 15 seconds or so.
Is this something the DIS is doing? Its the only place it seems to show up.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I use AdBlocker Plus on my laptop works like a charm

 

[pkondz]

Should we really have to use third party ad blocking software (which doesn't block ads from companies that have paid their fees, BTW) in order to use the DIS?

I had to reload this page three times in order to post this. Unbelievable.

 

[AngiTN]

I use AdBlocker and there is still something down there at the bottom that is screwing up page loads. It's not slow but it keeps jumping me to the bottom of the page.

 

[pkondz]

I'm finding that refreshing the page sometimes helps (just did it now since I couldn't type.)

 

[agavegirl1]

Thanks for the ad blocker suggestion. That is exactly what I needed...I can type and scroll now for more than a few minutes at a time.

 

[dburg30]

YES... thanks for the suggestion on one.. I've been looking.. This makes it like a whole new page!! I can actually enjoy the boards again..

 

[xlxo]

Another vote to get rid of that stupid video....

• causes my browser to crash
• multiple tabs can mean multiple ad videos playing
• the sound is annoying.

 

[tinkerone]

Another vote to get ride of that stupid video....

• causes my browser to crash
• multiple tabs can mean multiple ad videos playing
• the sound is annoying.

like, Like and LIKE! I often have several tabs open (such as now) and the ads come on, so confusing.

 

[peel]

I was coming by to report the same issue. I'm using Safari, and not only does a new ad play every 15-30 seconds, but the ads force the page to jump to the bottom every few seconds. It's impossible to read anything.

 

[BrianL]

It seemed like it went away for a while there but then it came back. It's making it so difficult to sue the site.

 

[BoltzNBrew]

In Chrome this site just sits there and flickers on the top of the tab. Trying to go back is impossible, just in the time to type this message there are a ton of entries when I hold the back button. I tried to disable flash but that has no effect.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I have no issues and I use Chrome.

 

[lacy1101]

In Chrome this site just sits there and flickers on the top of the tab. Trying to go back is impossible, just in the time to type this message there are a ton of entries when I hold the back button. I tried to disable flash but that has no effect.

This is my exact problem . . . did you find a fix?