Forums Run Too Slow

[Yowza]

Lately, every time I go onto these forums, my cpu starts to slow down (Windows 7) and everything is laggy. Is there a way I can just turn off all ads and images on these webpages? I turned off avatars and signatures but that does no good. How can I access a text only version of the website?

 

[jolldan]

Lately, every time I go onto these forums, my cpu starts to slow down (Windows 7) and everything is laggy. Is there a way I can just turn off all ads and images on these webpages? I turned off avatars and signatures but that does no good. How can I access a text only version of the website?

Have had similar issues over the last couple days. About 50% of the time when I load a page on this site it takes me back to the previous page I was on or just comes up that it was unable to connect.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Lately, every time I go onto these forums, my cpu starts to slow down (Windows 7) and everything is laggy. Is there a way I can just turn off all ads and images on these webpages? I turned off avatars and signatures but that does no good. How can I access a text only version of the website?

You need an adblocker that is capable of blocking specific elements within a web page. Specifically those stupid popups...
The ads themselves are handled quite well by most adblockers.

 

[Teelie]

It isn't going to be the forums themselves but the ads and all the bull**** associated with them that are slowing the site down. Retro said it best: find a good adblocker (uBlock or uBlock Origin, AdGuard AdBlocker, Disconnect, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, NoScript all for Firefox and/or Chrome or some variation between them).

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Yup. Adblocker is the way.

 

[Yowza]

Thanks everyone.

I'll try Ublock or one of the others and see if helps.

 

[Captain Bryan]

I had to do a lot of finagling to get this site to work with an ad blocker, but it does finally work.

 

[Yowza]

I just tried Ublock and the site is actually navigable now. Funnily enough, the first time I went on SHH prompted me to "whitelist" the website asking me to turnoff adblocker so I had to reload the page to get the prompt to not show.

I can't navigate this site anymore let alone try to do a post in here so I'm really liking this option being able to not have to wait for my cpu to unfreeze repetitively.