What is with the pop-ups on this site.

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  1. MickZagger

    MickZagger Well-Known Member

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    This is the only site I visit where I constantly get pop-ups. A little sidebar that constantly comes out and says 'hot deals'.

    How do I stop this annoyance?
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Ad blocker extension
     
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    Stop pirating Czech porn.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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  5. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    There are no popup ads on this site.
     
  6. BlazerCaravan

    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Yeah sure, and your bandwidth is really awesome too.
     
  7. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Really?

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    Looks like 3/4 of a second to fetch the page, and a couple more seconds to fetch all the images people link to on the page.

    We don't host the images or videos, those use someone else's bandwidth (whoever hosts them)
     
  8. julius

    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    whenever I've gotten pop up ads (and the like) and Denny tells me there's no pop up ads on here, I think he's full of shit...and then I do a hard core virus scan (pun intended) and find out that I had downloaded some shit. Usually one of those damn ad sense type programs, where they highlight certain words on pages.

    And so far, 95% of the programs originated from download.com

    I've learned that if I download something from there, I HAVE to manually pick the programs that go with the main file I'm downloading, or just no longer download stuff from there anymore.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Sure lets not talk about how the site barely loads during active game threads, consistently taking 20+ seconds to even get to the point where I'm seeing text.
     
  10. julius

    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I had that problem for a while, but it turned out to be something messed up with my computer. Now even on my older laptop (it's going on 5 years old) there's no delays with it.










    did I say that right Denny? Do I get my raise? ;)
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Do tell. I suppose it's possible my stock, brand new laptop has something wrong with it, and my iPad, and my iPhone... But I'm skeptical.
     
  12. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    The site is hosted at a top quality hosting facility with outstanding bandwidth.

    Nobody's ever complained until now about the site being slow. Not even on february 2nd, when there were over 1000 people viewing the Blazers forum, and another 300 viewing the rest of the site.

    If the bandwidth or server performance were off, I'm sure I'd be hearing about it from lots of people. But when I hear it from one person, the likely reason is something to do with that person's computer, network connection, ISP, DNS server, etc.

    That 3/4 second page load I showed you was from 15 router hops and about 500 miles of physical distance the data travelled.
     
  13. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Try power cycling your wifi router. It seems to be common among all those devices.
     
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    Is that some new extreme sport? Power cycling!
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    It means unplug it, wait 20 seconds, plug it back in, wait for it to reconnect to the Internet.
     
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    That 2.64 seconds to fully render the page was with browser cache turned off. With the cache enabled, I consistently see sub 1 second page loads.
     
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    So my router happens to go belly up during blazer games?
     
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    You guys are all saps. Those popups just told me I won 10K$! IM IN THE MONEY NOW!
     
  19. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Hmm... I never have that problem. Not even on my phone.

    And if there's pop-ups, I would have no idea because I run ad blocker.
     
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    BlazerCaravan Hug a Bigot... to Death

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    Because the staff of the site assures me the problem is me, I'll just drop it.
     

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