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| Thread ID: 79598 | 2007-05-25 08:32:00 | Why have the ads on this site got so big | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 553110 | 2007-05-26 04:15:00 | It all depends. Lots of big pictures, lots of little pictures, advertisements containing lots of pictures or clever animated effects; all take bandwidth, and take time to display. Even without advertisements, many web pages are v..e..r..y s..l..o..w to come up. Many web pages aren't worth waiting for. :D If everyone had GB/s connections, some people creating and pushing advertisements, and clever web pages would make slow pages. :groan: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 553111 | 2007-05-26 04:34:00 | I am on dialup and it works fine with all ads loading. Could be that it is already cached up. I'm the sort of person to remove the contents of my temp every fortnightly or so.:rolleyes: |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 553112 | 2007-05-26 06:10:00 | I am on dialup and it works fine with all ads loading.Ahh. But you're a Mac user aren't you?? :) ... I stand to be corrected (with suitable parts of anatomy exposed for punishment if I am wrong!! :lol: ) Not that a Mac on dial-up should (in theory) be any faster than a PC on dial-up, but there might be some tricky Steve Jobs caching going on... :D |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 553113 | 2007-05-26 10:18:00 | There's a note at mvps.org about large hosts files slowing the system down. It is suggested that the DNS Client service be turned off (W2k, XP etc) | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 553114 | 2007-05-26 23:30:00 | I didn't realise there were any ads! Been using AdBlock Plus with Firefox for the longest time... and haven't seen a single ad :) | chiefnz (545) | ||
| 553115 | 2007-05-27 04:15:00 | Pasting Bletch's stylesheet rows into the hosts file (in addition to Greg's 'book') doesn't fully hide the nasty ads.That would be because a stylesheet doesn't belong in the hosts file, and will have absolutely no effect if pasted there. Apply it as a custom stylesheet and they will all vanish, along with a large amount of other pixel-consuming junk. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 553116 | 2007-05-27 04:29:00 | That would be because a stylesheet doesn't belong in the hosts file, and will have absolutely no effect if pasted there. Apply it as a custom stylesheet and they will all vanish, along with a large amount of other pixel-consuming junk.Ahh. That'd be why. :blush: Assumption was that a hosts file performed a similar role... OK - so I create a custom stylesheet and place it where? I assume there would have to be one file for each browser installed??? And each browser has a specific folder into which it must be placed in order for it to do it's job...? |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 553117 | 2007-05-27 04:37:00 | The hosts file is part of the Internet TCP/IP system It's what the Internet had before it had a DNS server system. It works by resolving the advertising site addresses provided to the browser back to your machine. So the advertisements aren't found. Looking up addresses in an enormous hosts file might not save much time. ;) I think the style sheet doesn't stop the advertisements being fetched; it just stops them being displayed. So it might not speed things up much. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 553118 | 2007-05-27 04:41:00 | I think the style sheet doesn't stop the advertisements being fetched; it just stops them being displayed. So it might not speed things up much.That depends on which browser you are using - some do, some don't. Opera (the browser I wrote that stylesheet for) doesn't fetch stuff until it is actually displayed - and therefore the ads never load. OK - so I create a custom stylesheet and place it where?Save it as a .css file anywhere. Then right-click the page, Edit site preferences, Display, My style sheet. How it looks after applying the stylesheet: pressf1_css.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (89 KB) |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 553119 | 2007-05-27 06:32:00 | That depends on which browser you are using - some do, some don't. Opera (the browser I wrote that stylesheet for) doesn't fetch stuff until it is actually displayed - and therefore the ads never load. Save it as a .css file anywhere. Then right-click the page, Edit site preferences, Display, My style sheet. How it looks after applying the stylesheet: pressf1_css.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (89 KB)Luckily Opera is my preferred browser, so... Done (and reverted to my original hosts file). Wow!! Well done! :thumbs: :thumbs: Just out of interest, what change would you make to the custom.css file to allow the big red PC World banner to display (since there are some potentially useful navigation links on it)?? |
johcar (6283) | ||
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