Goofy behavior with 15-second popup ads

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CAMAROBOY69
I am still having the problem. Just happened 4 times within the last 1 minute.
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land sea air
As am I, it's very intermittent, I wasn't having problems until a couple minutes ago and then it hit me 5 or 6 times in a row. Is there anything else we should be checking on the browser besides having cookies enabled?
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Driving Park
Yeah, it's happening off and on now, not every click.
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As I said, make sure that you clear your cookies so you can get a fresh batch.

Sniffs
since, unfortunately, ads are what carry crash inducing cookies for this computer, that makes it worse. most of my computer slowdown and freezup problems are cased by the tracking cookies these kinds of ads generate.
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Cookies can do nothing to crash or slow down a computer's performance - that is, unless you're using an old browser with tens of thousands old, badly written cookies (without expiration dates) or access the Internet via dial-up (and some web developer has set an unreasonably large cookie size). 99% of the time, they will greatly improve and speed up your web browsing experience. In this case, for example, cookies are used to remind the ad server how many of these interstitials you've seen, allowing the ad server to only show them to you once ever 24 hours.
 
I cleared my cookies yesterday and this morning. I clear them every day. It seems to come and go in phases. I am not sure if a certain part of the site triggers these or if its just random. But when they appear, its usually several right in a row.
 
OK, I've completely removed all advertisements from the post composition pages for all users. This will prevent the interstitials from interfering with you while you're writing a new message.
 
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Boss: all I know is that according to EVERY ONE of my anti spyware programs, I get Tracking cookies constantly. I run a clean every now and then. usually it comes up as "ad-revolver" and like spy-heavy cookies.
also, I'm assuming that anything except high-speed cable is considered "dialup" by programs (we JUST got DSL here)
 
wfooshee
A monstrously large THANK YOU, Jordan, for your efforts at keeping this place informative, fun, manageable, safe, and clean. Not to mention USEFUL!!!! Your attitude and ability to work things out make this site such a joy to visit after being around some of the other eyesores out there. I don't know how you do it, and to a point I don't really care how, but I do care and appreciate that you do keep this place up to the standards of quality that you keep. 👍👍👍👍👍:cheers:
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Thanks for the kind words, wfooshee.

Sniffs
Boss: all I know is that according to EVERY ONE of my anti spyware programs, I get Tracking cookies constantly. I run a clean every now and then. usually it comes up as "ad-revolver" and like spy-heavy cookies.
also, I'm assuming that anything except high-speed cable is considered "dialup" by programs (we JUST got DSL here)
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I'm sure they do report "tracking cookies" - it makes you feel better about keeping their software installed. Cookies are, unfortunately, something which many different "security" companies have abused in order to make you think their program is more effective. Here's an article about this from USA Today.

By "dialup", I mean any Internet connection which requires you to dial in to an ISP's server via a phone line - in other words, any connection that operates at less than 56kb/s. I only brought that up because cookies can technically contain as much as 4KB of data. Since they are sent along with each request to a website, you're going to be uploading 4KB of data before further interaction can begin. That would be an extremely large and unusual cookie, though, and it would only affect the loading speed of the one site which you were using at the time.
 
all I know is that half a dozen cookies on here will, for some reason, perceptibly slow down the comp. I think they're doing it to the computer itself. our DSL still runs through the phone lines.
anyway, it's done, and the full pagers are out of the way.
 
Sniffs
all I know is that half a dozen cookies on here will, for some reason, perceptibly slow down the comp. I think they're doing it to the computer itself. our DSL still runs through the phone lines.
anyway, it's done, and the full pagers are out of the way.
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DSL is on phone lines, but it's not "dial-up." DSL is digital and high speed, where dial-up converts data to an analog audio stream, and is limited to a maximum speed of 56 kilobits per second, usually you only get high 30's or low 40's at best, compared to several megabits per second for DSL.
 
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The ads are still there, just not constantly (like the other day) and hopefully not during the composition of a post.
 

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