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| Thread ID: 48434 | 2004-08-23 00:03:00 | NZ Herald ads driving my CPU 100% | nzStan (440) | Press F1 |
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| 264477 | 2004-08-23 00:03:00 | Anyone else notice this today? Go to the NZ Herald website (www.nzherald.co.nz) and view some of the NZ News pages. Where there are the Lotto Investment/BigByte adverts on the right side you should notice your CPU going up to 100%. Other pages without the three adverts seem to work fine. Anyone else having the same problem like me? |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 264478 | 2004-08-23 00:14:00 | > Anyone else having the same problem like me? Nope What browser are you using? |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 264479 | 2004-08-23 00:15:00 | I didnt quite get 100%,but still experienced a massive hike it cpu usage. sal.neoburn.net This is why we all have to upgrade,to view the adds on commercial websites. doh!! |
metla (154) | ||
| 264480 | 2004-08-23 00:18:00 | I'm on W2K Pro and viewing with Firefox 0.9.2. I verified having the same constant 100% CPU usage on IE6 as well so it is not browser related. Try this page and check your CPU usage. www.nzherald.co.nz |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 264481 | 2004-08-23 00:54:00 | > Try this page and check your CPU usage. > > www.nzherald.co.nz > 120&thesection=sport&thesubsection=olympics oh, yes, I did get 85 - 99% - 100% Cpu usage :( I wonder if it is the lotto ad or the bigbite ad? This is with Firefox 0.9.2 on Win XP SP2 RC 2 |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 264482 | 2004-08-23 01:02:00 | Must be Lotto using my CPU to calculate all the profit they made over the weekend. ;) | nzStan (440) | ||
| 264483 | 2004-08-23 01:21:00 | Barely got to 18% but once I had cleared my cache and disabled adblock it got up to 50%. I sent complaint email to the Herald last week regarding their advertising particularly when it refreshes it has a tendency to open in a new window if you don't have the right elements blocked. I left it open and unblocked to see what would happen, the result was about 20 ad windows open in 10 minutes. Needless to say I have not received a reply from the Herald or the irresponsible webmaster. I would encourage all of you who find this site problematical to send a polite email the editorial section and/or use the feedback facility and/or the webmaster. Obviously they have an inconsiderate ,arrogant git in charge of their website and/or marketing who cannot be bothered to realise that people will stop visiting or block the ads. One question, if every time the ads refresh and open in a new window does this give them a new page hit which would in turn provide them with false evidence that the ads were being viewed and therefore meeting the needs of the advertiser? Funny thing is I remember the annoying Flash but don't remember the suckers who have paid for it, so, good advert for SWFlash bad for the client :^O maybe a direct response to the advertiser would help as well but you would need to make it clear you had to search out the name in order to complain. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 264484 | 2004-08-23 01:46:00 | >>I sent complaint email to the Herald last week Maybe you need to higher up the corporate chain.... mind you, they still wouldn't answer. They expect to get a few complaints about things like that. Hopefully the ad is provided by another resource... so just block access to it. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 264485 | 2004-08-23 01:48:00 | Using Firefox 0.9.3 with the flash blocker installed, had no problems until I clicked the play button to view the flash adds then CPU usage jumped to 99%. My recommendation: Install the flash blocker for Firefox from here (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 264486 | 2004-08-23 01:55:00 | OK it looks like the ads are from http://ads.whi.co.nz (based on checking through the source codes). How do I filter them in Firefox? These are not pop ups. A pity tho if I have to filter all ads. Some ads are Ok and I quite like to see them but not at the expense of using up all my CPU time. |
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