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Post by Alined on Nov 29, 2017 6:17:59 GMT
I had to turn my ad blocker back on for the site today, not because of ads (though it is annoying how I randomly get carried away to other pages and have to click 'back' due to ad scripts sometimes) but because some sort of background script was sucking up almost 100% of my CPU, getting progressively worse the longer I spent working on a post to reply. It's difficult to contact ProBoards about this, so I thought I'd mention it here to see if anyone else has this problem, or knows a way to solve it that they'd complain about less than using an ad blocker.
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Post by Linde (x-GM) on Nov 29, 2017 6:22:35 GMT
I had to turn my ad blocker back on for the site today, not because of ads (though it is annoying how I randomly get carried away to other pages and have to click 'back' due to ad scripts sometimes) but because some sort of background script was sucking up almost 100% of my CPU, getting progressively worse the longer I spent working on a post to reply. It's difficult to contact ProBoards about this, so I thought I'd mention it here to see if anyone else has this problem, or knows a way to solve it that they'd complain about less than using an ad blocker. I am sorry to say that I too block adds here.
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Post by Maelgwyn ap Cadwgan (TOG) on Nov 29, 2017 10:53:19 GMT
What browser were you using? I'll check it out at home, I remember having some issue with CPU some time ago. Might have been when I was much more active on the forum. Here at work I don't have the issue but I'm behind so many firewalls I likely smell of smoke.
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Post by X-Nemeth on Nov 29, 2017 14:03:17 GMT
No problem for me, neither at home or here at work. Are you sure it is not just some "spyware" that runs as an addon in your browser?
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Post by Alined on Nov 29, 2017 18:06:29 GMT
I don't have any installed other than the ad blocker, it was only a problem on this tab and navigating or refreshing the page temporarily fixed it, and turning the ad blocker on ended the problem immediately, so I don't think so.
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Post by Turn Processing Assistant on Nov 29, 2017 23:09:33 GMT
I used to have the same issue at work (and there is no way spyware gets on the work computer) until I jumped through the requisite hoops to get ad-blocking software added to the browser.
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Post by SouthWestern Traders on Nov 29, 2017 23:28:27 GMT
The ads the website plays are not always properly vetted. You'd think they'd do a better job. But there was a time when they even had legit ads that played audio in the background, and didn't have an off button.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone thought they could get away with using the ads to make people data-mine for bitcoin or something in the background. Someone apparently did just that.
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Post by Maelgwyn ap Cadwgan (TOG) on Nov 30, 2017 1:15:28 GMT
That's actually pretty clever. Now to have some kind of simple replicating page rerouting link to sites running those ads. And watch Amazon's cloud service stroke out again.
I'm curious which ones cause it though.
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