UHH Slowdown: Any other photog here experiencing a slowdown due to the mini-advertising slots having to upload before the next OP entry is click-able? Has anyone found a workaround to...

CanonShot Loc: Lancaster County, PA

Any other photog here experiencing a slowdown due to the mini-advertising slots having to upload before the next OP entry is click-able?

Has anyone found a workaround to avoid this slowdown due to pop-ups? Or, is UHH doomed, along with the rest of the faithful among us who enjoyed this basically clutter-free site multiple times per day?

Could we be back to normal after the holidays?

Quixdraw Loc: x

It has gotten increasingly slow and quirky. It locks up on occasion and I have to walk away for a while or hard reboot. A whole bunch of strange and erratic behaviors. Thought it was my computer or internet connection.

Cappy Loc: Wildwood, NJ

We get UHH free. Somehow their staff needs to get paid, imbedded advertising does that. If you look at almost any free website their is advertising on either the right or left. That's also how some of these websites can sell for millions of dollars because of the popularity of their site and the advertising income they bring in.

CanonShot Loc: Lancaster County, PA

quixdraw wrote:

It has gotten increasingly slow and quirky. It locks up on occasion and I have to walk away for a while or hard reboot. A whole bunch of strange and erratic behaviors. Thought it was my computer or internet connection.

Well, quixdraw (nice handle), I don't know what consolation it is, but you have company. DANG!

CanonShot Loc: Lancaster County, PA

Cappy wrote:

We get UHH free. Somehow their staff needs to get paid, imbedded advertising does that. If you look at almost any free website their is advertising on either the right or left. That's also how some of these websites can sell for millions of dollars because of the popularity of their site and the advertising income they bring in.

Cappy, you offer the truth so eloquently. What a shame. Unless someone offers a workaround, I guess I will cut my topics back to 2, thus avoiding the double-aggravation of watching the little spinning blue circle while the multitude of pop-ups earn the admins their money. Double-DANG!

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

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If you don't have them I'll bet your system will run faster including UHH.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

CanonShot wrote:

Any other photog here experiencing a slowdown due to the mini-advertising slots having to upload before the next OP entry is click-able?

Has anyone found a workaround to avoid this slowdown due to pop-ups? Or, is UHH doomed, along with the rest of the faithful among us who enjoyed this basically clutter-free site multiple times per day?

Could we be back to normal after the holidays?

I have not noticed any slow down (knock on wood).

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Nope no slowdown. Then again no advert either.

Jst remember that the advert are served by google and google does not do anything else than be a link to the real advertisers that pay google for the traffic....

So.. You (A)* > (R)** ISP (A) > (R) UHH (A) > (R) google (A)> (R) Advert (S)*** > (R) Google (S) > (R) ISP (S) > (R) You.

The weak link? Advert (S).

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* A(sk)
** R(eceive)
*** S(end)

Quixdraw Loc: x

I changed search engines to duckduckgo UHH performance is quite a bit better.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

quixdraw wrote:

I changed search engines to duckduckgo UHH performance is quite a bit better.

No idea why this is as there is no search engine involved here. Google is used a service not a search engine.

Quixdraw Loc: x

Rongnongno wrote:

No idea why this is as there is no search engine involved here. Google is used a service not a search engine.

Don't know why either -- no internet / computer expert. Something is different. They don't track users -- that may help.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

quixdraw wrote:

Don't know why either -- no internet / computer expert. Something is different. They don't track users -- that may help.

Tracking is done by UHH/Google... Another process altogether that involves Q/A between UHH and Google as well as your computer browser.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Rongnongno wrote:

Tracking is done by UHH/Google... Another process altogether that involves Q/A between UHH and Google as well as your computer browser.

I use Bing, not Google. Do you think that could be the reason I'm not experiencing a slowdown?

Quixdraw Loc: x

I'm o.k. with it if it is voodoo -- not perfect, but much less annoying.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Mac wrote:

I use Bing, not Google. Do you think that could be the reason I'm not experiencing a slowdown?

No. Web sites do not care about your search engine. They care about your cookies in order to create advertising.

Since most use google advert server it makes no difference.

What does is (sometime) the 'do not track setting' in your browser and (mostly) the killing of unwanted images using something like adblock (using a generic block) as well as the targeted killing of scripts.

Cookies are the real problem thought but that is a discussion that does not belong here.