How do I supress ads?

Submitted: Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 17:37

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Member - Boobook

EO has been running very slowly on all my devices lately and it locks the browser ( IE, Chrome, Android x 2) until the ads have completely downloaded. Sometimes when travelling it can take 30 seconds or more and even at home can take 10 seconds or more at times.

I have never wanted to suppress them before but EO is so slooooo lately I see no choice.

Can someone tell me how to do this, can't find it on the menus any more.

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Reply By: Allan B (Member, SunCoast) - Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 17:48

Reply By: Motherhen - Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 19:37

Reply By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 20:54

Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 20:54

Just a related question - how old is the computer you are using? There have been no changes to the ad rendering and in fact I have reduced some of the ad code down of late so curious about the problem? The ads also should lazy load and not stop the system from responding when they load, so I wonder if there may be something else going on.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 20:56

Thursday, Jul 25, 2013 at 20:56

Oh and for the record the most intensive process on the system in terms of images is actually the scrolling header image. One other little thing to check/try is update your flash player (it may be set to auto but if not try updating this also!
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Follow Up By: Member - Boobook - Friday, Jul 26, 2013 at 15:10

Friday, Jul 26, 2013 at 15:10

Thanks David I will check that out, I really would prefer to keep the ads for this site believe it or not.

It happens on my 18month old Win 7 with Firefox, and my 3 month old Asus Tf201 with whatever that defaults to. The problems seems to be about 2 months old.

It does seem to be related to the ads and unfreezes when they are all up.

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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Friday, Jul 26, 2013 at 16:41

Friday, Jul 26, 2013 at 16:41

Boobook, please feel free to keep hassling me on this I am not able to duplicate this at the moment my systems seems to load really fast. Are you on 3G type data or fixed line adsl?

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