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| Thread ID: 52302 | 2004-12-16 05:12:00 | Press F1 is now a Bandwidth hog | stu161204 (123) | PC World Chat |
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| 303839 | 2004-12-16 07:32:00 | Tools>options>web options>tick show pics for originating site only. That will get rid of most adds without needing to block specific servers via adblock. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 303840 | 2004-12-16 07:39:00 | Surely the ad's can't be that heavy on bandwidth. Should only need to load once. | ~sy~ (95) | ||
| 303841 | 2004-12-16 07:43:00 | Surely the ad's can't be that heavy on bandwidth. Should only need to load once. if your on 28k think again ! they should only load once but the browser will general check to see if the add has changed or not (depending on browser and cookies etc) which in itself can slow the page loading. its far quicker if the browser dosn't check at all (or gets given false addy). |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 303842 | 2004-12-16 07:44:00 | An extension for blocking ads is hardly needed, IMO. Like metla said, just disable third-party images. Another thing I do is find out the hostname of the ad-rotator server and block that - saves blocking the address of individual ads. |
agent (30) | ||
| 303843 | 2004-12-16 07:51:00 | Personaly, I find the new pf1 faster. what happened to the spellll cheacker? lmao. |
eat soap (124) | ||
| 303844 | 2004-12-16 08:00:00 | Surely the ad's can't be that heavy on bandwidth. Should only need to load once. Ads? I guess that's why there's a big empty space at the top of the page and down the right hand side. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 303845 | 2004-12-16 08:02:00 | yeah with that Adblock the ad still came up sometimes, but following metla's simple instructions it must of worked. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 303846 | 2004-12-16 08:10:00 | It is WAAAAY faster for me, and I know that faster = less B/W used. Ah not necessarily. A slow server could take ages to generate a lightweight page off a database, a fast server could take seconds to generate MB worth of bloat. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 303847 | 2004-12-16 08:12:00 | An extension for blocking ads is hardly needed, IMO. Like metla said, just disable third-party images. Another thing I do is find out the hostname of the ad-rotator server and block that - saves blocking the address of individual ads. That's what the Ad-Block extension allows you to do. A lot easier to do it with that than adding entries to your hosts file. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 303848 | 2004-12-16 08:52:00 | That's what the Ad-Block extension allows you to do. A lot easier to do it with that than adding entries to your hosts file. Ah, I didn't know that. All the same, I prefer the do-it-yourself method. :D |
agent (30) | ||
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