For the most part, I mentally filter out the ads that are on the page.
And I understand that many sites live from advertisements.
However, some ads are ridiculously "heavy". At this day and [Internet] age
if a serious professional website wants to be supported by ads, they need
to make sure those ads are not slowing down my browser/computer to a
crawl. And if the ad starts showing a video, producing sounds,
those are gross offenders in my book.
BTW, IIRC, it was Google who first imposed limitations on the "Google Ads"
- that they must be light-weight, etc. And Google ads are considered some
of the most successful.
I also know that, e.g. flyertalk.com , which has heavy pages and rather
large number of ads on their forum pages, - they have been encouraging to
report ads that were slowing down their pages.
Still, their pages are very heavy and overload the browser, so, I am
reluctant to whitelist the in the ad-blocker.
Igor
Eric Weir Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:57:25 -0700 wrote:
Thanks, Zos. I contact the website’s support group. The attributed the
difficulty to a “rogue ad,” over which they said they had minimal control.
The suggested an ad blocker. I use one, but I had whitelisted the site to
support the magazine They offer “ad free access,” which I’m checking into.
Eric
On Jul 19, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote:
Some websites are just poorly coded too. If they have videos and lots
of embeds running its pretty easy to eat up your processor quickly.
Chrome often surprises me with how much CPU it uses.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, PJ. I use an ad blocker, too. I may have white listed the Atlantic
site.
On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:12 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]>
wrote:
Malformed adverts. I've had web pages with such horrible scripts that they
hang the web browser and require a restart. That's the main reason I've
employed an ad blocker. I can ignore the ads.
On 7/19/2017 6:07 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
Recently—a day or two ago—I noticed that my MacBook Air was emitting a
low-pitched hissing sound, as if a fan were running. I first noticed this
when I had been processing photos in Lightroom for a while. But I’m
experiencing it now and all I have open are Safari and Mail.
I ran Activity Monitor and found two tasks that were using a high
percentage of CPU. One was a kernel task. The other showed the web address
of The Atlantic Magazine, which I had open at the time. The percent of CPU
it was using ranged between the mid-50s and the mid-90s.
I killed that process, the Atlantic page was reloaded, and the fan noise
has stopped. Why would a web page use so much processor capacity?
Thanks and apologies for being so wildly off-topic,
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