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  • January 1, 2012 5:22 pm at 5:22 pm #601433
    Ctrl Alt Del
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    Ok, so maybe I have a really slow and outdated computer, but could YWN please cut down on the moving and blinking ads? I mean it slows my system down so much and its gonna set off seizures one day. Does anyone else have a problem with this?

    January 1, 2012 5:32 pm at 5:32 pm #840522
    OneOfMany
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    Use Adblock Plus. It gets rid of ALL of them.

    January 1, 2012 5:33 pm at 5:33 pm #840523
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    “I mean it slows my system down so much and its gonna set off seizures one day”

    in you or in your computer?

    I get that on my notebook, I press the stop loading button as soon as the text is done and it helps.

    January 1, 2012 5:37 pm at 5:37 pm #840524
    thecuriousone
    Member

    I absolutely agree!

    January 1, 2012 6:23 pm at 6:23 pm #840525
    ED IT OR
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    just turn off images completely for this site?

    January 1, 2012 6:25 pm at 6:25 pm #840526
    soliek
    Member

    lol youre asking yeshivaworld, a free site supported by its ads and its ads alone, to remove its ads? lolololol if you dont like them use adblock

    January 1, 2012 6:52 pm at 6:52 pm #840527
    Ctrl Alt Del
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    I am not asking them to remove the ads, just maybe slow the blink rate. It probably uses sooo much memory to run this page. Sometimes I open a few articles in other tabs and it uses up so much RAM that my computer slows to a crawl. Do the ads have to move so much? Couldn’t we just get static ads?

    January 1, 2012 6:56 pm at 6:56 pm #840528
    OneOfMany
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    They probably won’t/can’t change the ads. Just use Adblock Plus.

    January 1, 2012 9:16 pm at 9:16 pm #840529
    squeak
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    Or use Flashblock. That just blocks the “moving” ads from starting up.

    January 1, 2012 10:05 pm at 10:05 pm #840530
    I can only try
    Member

    The ads on this site are very CPU-intensive.

    When you open or refresh a page you can see the CPU usage go way up in the task manager, then after a minute or so it goes back down.

    This isn’t the only site that has this issue.

    For whatever reason, some of the “blinking” ads are flash-based, some are .jpeg and some are .gif; they all seem to be demanding CPU-wise.

    Turning off flash will help somewhat, but it will reduce the CPU usage by less than 50%

    My old laptop gets quite hot and the cooling fan speeds up and becomes noisy if I open several YW pages at once.

    A newer PC with more processing power will be far less likely to have this issue.

    No, this is not a sponsorship offer ?

    January 1, 2012 10:24 pm at 10:24 pm #840531
    soliek
    Member

    lol i have two gaming rigs…i never run short on processing 😀

    January 1, 2012 10:32 pm at 10:32 pm #840532
    OneOfMany
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    Blocking flash would block all flash content (not only ads).

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