Is anyone else experiencing problems with pages loading? After getting to the home page for the Q & A, when I click on any thread, there's about a minute long pause when only the ads and blue bars are shown; the rest of the page is clear white.
Eventually, the actual thread loads - usually. Sometimes I just close down or visit another site where the problem doesn't occur.. This happens in both IE and Firefox, so I'm sure it's not a browser issue.
Now I'm getting a notice stating ""transferring data from page ad 2 google.syndication.com" -- it seems to infer the thread is loaded on google and then opened here. (The notice is w/o spaces, which I added for legibility.)
I randomly picked "Emotional Wellbeing" as the thread category b/c thinking that posts are being automatically submitted to some google ad (which is probably a tracking ad) is going to affect my emotional wellbeing if this doesn't get fixed ASAP.
I knew that threads were linked to google but I don't understand why they would load there first and be transferred here, unless there's some linking that's just been initiated.
Anyone else having this problem?
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Now the banner ad had turned the page into a "jumping bean" :(
Heavens, isn't life complicated enough with caregiving without our source of outside communication with other caregivers, the software is messing with our devices.
I understand it was easier years ago when one had a Personal Computer... then Mac came out and coders had to make it compatible with the PC. Then came the laptops. Then came the light weight iPads. Now the web is on something the size of a large Hershey bar. How do the coders keep up?
Then the week before Christmas the real attack began. Every 2 - 3 minutes one of these ads, including a few that were pornographic, appeared. We figured they were bots.
And some of them were long ads, with repeated information for some piece of junk, illegal drugs, or whatever.
When they started, I reported some to the owners of the legitimate websites. E.g., one spammer was advertising coupons for Lowe's. I contacted Lowe's and after a while worked my way to one of the web techs, providing information on how to contact the DIY forum's admins. That ad didn't last long.
But with hundreds, it's impossible to do that, nor should forum readers have to.
By the time Monday after Christmas rolled around, thousands of these revolting spam posts had shut down the forum. No one could post b/c the post was immediately pushed down by the ensuing and proflierating spams.
When that happens to me, I narrow the width of the page. CW's suggestion awhile back about resizing the page works for me, and it cuts out the ads. For whatever reason, the pagers don't compress and decompress when they're narrowed.
More bugs to work out.
This happens when the top banner ad disappears. If this keeps up, I will be reaching for my motion sickness pills :P
Now I understand though, if it was an East Coast DDOS. This site's HQ is in Florida.
The other sites I was visiting in the interim which had no delays in loading aren't on the East Coast; they're sited elsewhere so probably weren't affected.
But I'm not sure I'd blame the Russians - maybe it's a Trump Attack or an attack by Trump Supporters angry at the rest of us!
Tacy, no, Charter isn't my ISP. Had to laugh - my cell phone is a cheap one I got for free with the AAA then AARP senior citizen program. It's a basic model, nothing like what a SmartPhone would do. Except that it likes to make its own phone calls.
Once when we were in the ER (obviously with cell phones off), it dialed AAA 14 times - I felt sorry for the people at AAA answering a phone that was off, making who knows what kind of calls. Must have gotten annoying answering a phone when no one was there.
It's also called a few other places - I never know when I turn it on what it's been doing. Maybe it's haunted.
CWillie, that's what I thought as well - some tweaking by the IT crew.
Bookluvr, you hit the nail on the head. I never thought of a cyber attack.
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if the networks went down on Election Day, especially if Trump is doing poorly.
Thanks for your responses. At least I know it wasn't my computer.
I wonder how many toasters, coffeemakers, and digital doorbells were running amuck :P
The only other thing I can think is that there is so much traffic on the information highway that the roads are jammed with readers. People watching the baseball games from the other night when they were watching the Debate, or vise versa. I know if I try to go into another website, such as AOL where I use IE as my browser it takes forever for all the ads to download.