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[tengiants]

Anyone else having problems browsing GAF the last few days? It doesn't appear to be browser or computer specific. I'm making 10 requests per second to various ad networks and tracking pixels, uploading megabytes of data somewhere, and then my browser eventually crashes if I sit idle on any page too long.

I'm not using ad block or anything. It seems like there's a problem retrieving ads for me.

 

[Sage00]

Yep, here too. Randomly crashes Safari now and again.

 

[WedgeX]

Today I noticed it. Was destroying my Firefox but didn't happen to catch the exact ads.

 

[Madness]

I'm getting sick of getting security prompts on my phone when clicking the next page of a thread because the advertisement is different or something. I get tons of "problem with security certificate" etc. And I have gotten malware warnings as well on desktop. Maybe they need to change whoever selects or is running ads.

 

[brainzelda]

Yup I can see my firefox title bar tripping out because of pinging ad sites. Then if I come back after 30 min I have to force quit due to ad script errors.

 

[LowlySmokeGuy]

Nothing is crashing for me, but on Firefox, my antivirus thing keeps blocking suspicious content. There is a blank black rectangle where the ads usually are, so it obviously has something to do with them. I think this started happening about a week ago.

 

[studyguy]

Was crashing my work PC all day.

 

[Hilbert]

Was definitely having problems today. Thought my computer was getting too old.

 

[tengiants]

Glad it's not just me. For neogaf admins, if this helps, I've made about 12000 requests in 2 mins to urls that look like this:

http://ib.adnxs.com/ttj?id=3219012...
http://adserverwc.adtechus.com/adperf/3.0/5259/3367628/0/225/AdId=5915111...

This is happening when just idling on a page.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I'm not the only one!

 

[Winterfang]

I reset my tablet twice today because GAF was broken. Didn't knew it was a rogue Ad.

 

[Chuckl3s]

Same here. I've only been on the mobile app tho.

 

[Boogalogist]

I thought I was the only one. It crashes my Dolphin Browser on my Android.

 

[FLEABttn]

This is happening to me as well.

 

[mysteriousmage09]

Same thing for me.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Getting it constantly over the last 30 minutes or so.

 

[.GqueB.]

That's dragons age (or whatever the hell) ad was slowing my computer down something awful today.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Have also had this over the past couple of days. Opera has gradually become unusable on this forum for me. Have been resorting to IE but even there I get lockups and crashes often.

 

[Pickles Spill]

I don't even have ads showing up on my end for some reason. There are only black boxes where they're supposed to be.

 

[PensOwl]

This happened to me, it caused Firefox to continuously rise in memory until it became unusable.

 

[royalan]

Thought it was just me.

My laptop is getting old, but it's not THAT old. GAF had Firefox on lock-down on my computer. Started having issues maybe 2 weeks ago...

 

[EightBitNate]

No crashes here.

Mobile master race

 

[Luigiv]

So it wasn't just me, cool. I was worried the extra RAM I just installed the day before was causing me the issues at first. But yeah, the problem ad cause a major memory leak in FF.

 

[noquarter]

Has been crashing my phone browser a lot lately. Don't know if it is the ads or what, but about once every couple hours it just shuts down.

Using WP8.1 Internet Explorer.

 

[Mephala]

Happens to me too, started up adblock for now. :\

 

[Kimaka]

It has been happening to me too. Crashes and major slowdown.

 

[MisterNoisy]

Same thing, but only on my tablet and phone. Desktop is unaffected because... reasons...

 

[oreomunsta]

Consider me another rampant-ad victim!

 

[DJ_Lae]

I've been getting it too, with Chrome and IE11. Originally thought something was up with my PC.

 

[big_z]

Just saw this thread and my browser crashed.
Using win7 IE11, usually it hangs the browser for a while and then it works again or the tab will recover itself.

 

[Tagg9]

Yeah, I had to close the Gaf tab at work because I was getting 1000s of requests per minute via Fiddler.

 

[wrowa]

GAF tabs were caught in a endless loading pattern yesterday. It becomes truly annoying by now - there are new problems with ad every week. At least it feels like it.

 

[Iadien]

GAF tabs were caught in a endless loading pattern yesterday. It becomes truly annoying by now - there are new problems with ad every week. At least it feels like it.

The last month has been pretty bad for sure.

 

[G_Berry]

Default galaxy s5 browser crashes all the time while on gaf. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

 

[oneils]

Wow, I thought it was my pc or Ipad. Getting lots of browser crashes with chrome on pc or safari on Ipad 2. Mainly while on this site. However, I did have a few crashes while watching a gamespot video in safari.

Ads on chrome, while on my pc, are now just black boxes.

Scratches head...

No crashes here.

Mobile master race

Strangely enough, I get no crashes on safari while on my iphone. Safari on my Ipad crashes, though. My iphone has iOS 7 and the ipad has iOS 8. I had assumed that iOS 8 just was too intense for my 2nd generation ipad and perhaps that is the issue.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I'm using Mobile only for now

 

[RoadHazard]

Yeah, noticed the desktop version using up loads of CPU time yesterday, slowing my entire PC down. Mobile is fine (Chrome on Android).

 

[Kathian]

I use mobile on desktop for the mean time.

 

[postcyberpunk]

Between this and getting Malware attack threats from GAF, I think I am done here.

 

[EricTheCleric]

I have had to use AdBlock and am having no troubles now.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

It's a bummer that a site with a no AdBlock policy has to have such incredibly shitty ads.

 

[postcyberpunk]

I have had to use AdBlock and am having no troubles now.

um...don't say that out loud

 

[wackojackosnose]

The crash / slow & constant loading only happens for me on the 4 thread listing pages. I have to hit stop just to stop the pages from constantly loading.

Absolutely no problems when I'm actually reading a thread though.

 

[Chariot]

um...don't say that out loud

Really, when the ads crash the browser this can be acceptable, as long as he turn it off again when everything is green again.

That said, I have NeoGAF whitelisted on AdBlock, but suffer no crashes or vicious things from the forum. Then again, I also see no ads despite the whitelist, only black fields.

 

[RoadHazard]

um...don't say that out loud

While I do whitelist GAF in AdBlock, in situations like this - with ads killing your entire PC's performance - I'd say it's acceptable to temporarily block them, no?

 

[Manmademan]

Is that what was causing that? I was getting pretty frustrated. Switched to opera, that seemed to help the problem but man that sucks.

 

[wsippel]

Really, when the ads crash the browser this can be acceptable, as long as he turn it off again when everything is green again.

That said, I have NeoGAF whitelisted on AdBlock, but suffer no crashes or vicious things from the forum. Then again, I also see no ads despite the whitelist, only black fields.

I assume that's because the ads use iFrames and you haven't whitelisted the domain the iFrame is hosted on. Didn't even know iFrames were still a thing, they're shit and nobody should ever use them. For anything.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Is that what was causing that? I was getting pretty frustrated. Switched to opera, that seemed to help the problem but man that sucks.

I use Opera and its garbage with GAF

 

[Lucifon]

Yep I'm also having this, with Chrome. I came to post about it and found this thread already existed. It's really frustrating, the ads don't load and stay white then the page continues to make requests/load.

Seems to happen mostly when in the overall section view, in specific threads I'm not seeing it as much?

 

[EricTheCleric]

um...don't say that out loud

Ive disabled AdBlock for NeoGaf now

and all I get is black empty boxes where the ads should be