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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 14:43:07 GMT
you guys all know what "gobbledegook" means right  T'internet in Yorkshire all fine |
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Steerpike
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Post by Steerpike on Oct 20, 2015 14:46:18 GMT
So what has changed for the forum since yesterday when everything worked quickly? A compulsory update which has a bug in it? edit: I have just enabled my adblock, so now all works properly in Firefox. I now get this message at the top of the page: "Please consider supporting this website by disabling your ad-blocker.
This website does not use audio ads, popups, or other annoyances. Thank you!"
Well there has been an annoyance today!
I use an adblocker which is turned off for this site. I also use a tracking blocker which is turned on for this site and every other site. I see ads but I have experienced no slowdown today. The tracking blocker is currently blocking 4 out of the 10 potential trackers.
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SteveT
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Post by SteveT on Oct 20, 2015 14:49:08 GMT
Ghostery extension for Chrome now installed and all pages speedy again as normal.  |
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Post by mrclondon on Oct 20, 2015 17:30:14 GMT
This issue is affecting all forums hosted by Proboards - they have agreed there is an problem, and are investigating. If as we suspect its a third party ad server thats stalling, it may take a day or so to be resolved.
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bigfoot12
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Post by bigfoot12 on Oct 20, 2015 19:58:59 GMT
I am sure that it is rubiconproject.com or anvil.rubiconproject.com causing the problem.
My browser was fine until a few hours ago. My firefox default blocks third party cookies, which this probably is. If I divert all rubiconproject.com traffic to localhost my problem is fixed. Either the server is slow or reconfigured or a timeout setting is missing.
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upland
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Post by upland on Oct 21, 2015 7:32:42 GMT
Its been dreadful since yesterday for me. Bad on Chrome and IE.
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oldgrumpy
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Post by oldgrumpy on Oct 21, 2015 9:19:42 GMT
I am still OK with my adblock+ enabled. It was appalling without the adblock.
As mentioned above, it was rubiconproject.com and anvil.rubiconproject.com which seemed to be causing the stalling problem.
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Post by yorkshireman on Oct 21, 2015 10:00:15 GMT
There was no problem with a slow forum yesterday only “gobbledygook” and no emoticons / smileys when using Firefox, both of which are now sorted, t’internet is flying today.
Thank you to those who suggested Ghostery.
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Post by mrclondon on Oct 21, 2015 12:45:23 GMT
Proboards are saying that the issue only affects the UK (great !) and the root cause is a DDoS attack on their largest UK advertising partner ( ... whom we appear to have identified as Rubicon). Performance might continue be intermittent for a few days, but seems fine as I type this. For those attempting to block calls to rubicon at source I've noticed optimized-by.rubiconproject.com is another related sub-domain.
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Post by nickthefool on Oct 21, 2015 13:58:47 GMT
Have had issues with rubiconproject causing sites to be slow in the past, have followed the advice here and installed Ghostery which seems to have made everything nice and speedy |
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Post by mikeb on Oct 21, 2015 18:08:11 GMT
Can confirm that I'm blocking these, by standard, and saw no problems with the forum through this period.
127.0.0.1 optimized-by.rubiconproject.com
127.0.0.1 pixel.rubiconproject.com #[WebBug]
127.0.0.1 tap.rubiconproject.com #[tap.oo-core.com]
127.0.0.1 tap-cdn.rubiconproject.com
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