but there is a particular ad which I’m getting served this week which freezes the page and stops the site from loading.
I don’t mind the ads but this is a little annoying to be honest.

Is it the one for “midget gigolos in your local area” or the one for “bras and panties for the discerning man“?
Both those a really annoying me. I wish STW wouldn’t put those up.

DrP

I’m hating the really transparent one

It’s actually an ebay one about a mum celebrating kicking out her kid to go to university and selling all his belongings the minute he’s out the door to fund a nationwide swingers tour.

or something

If you tell us which particular ad it is then it can be looked into.

ebay

I’m having the same problem with the same ad as it happens.

I’ve bounced an email to the tech guys.

Can you let us know which browser and OS.

ebay one freezing android phone here pretty much every other time i try go on – and have to log in each visit ( may be problem with my phone settings?) but advert freezes page so can’t even get that far 🙁

There are adverts?

ebay, firefox , win7…. (oh and me too btw)

Chrome on Windows 7.

Along the same lines please could you fix the static background or whatever bit of CSS causes the scrolling to be chronically CPU intensive in Chrome.

Chrome and Windows 8.1.

EBay ad doing that for me too in chrome on Android.

advert freezes page so can’t even get that far

Bookmark http://singletrackworld.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=/forum/ – it’ll take you to the forum if you’re logged in, and an advert-free login page if you aren’t.

Great, thanks Cougar

As above, it’s the ebay one that runs along the top. Seems to work ok on my PC (Chrome, Windows 7), locks my tablet (Win 8, IE).
Only happens once a session so not that much of a pain.

Chrome on Windows 7 Enterprise

Great, thanks Cougar

You can also frob the “redirect” bit of the URL if you want to go specifically to the Bike / Chat forum, just add bike-chat/ or off-topic/ to the end.

Do websites still have adverts on them?

this^

Chrome on Win 7.

Do websites still have adverts on them?

That depends if you read the forum rules or not.

I love my P

Firefox, Win 8,
Just the ad shows, but on refreshing the forum loads properly.

Cougar – the log in thing is happening here – every single time on Mac/Chrome and iphone/chrome/safari
even ticking “remember me” isn’t working (not that it ever does for very long)

Are you blocking cookies? That’ll do it.

not that it ever does for very long)

A month seems to be fine for me.

Same here eBay ad, chrome on Android. Again a refresh and it loads

Same here eBay ad, chrome on Android. Again a refresh and it loads

And me

I.e. On Windows 8

I googled a problem the other day and ended up browsing a random forum, after a few minutes I noticed a message at the top of the forum stating that they detected I was not able to view the ads, and requesting me to ‘whitelist their site’ or bugger off. Or words to that effect 😆

(for the record, I haven’t installed anyfink, but my Toshiba Chromebook was supplied from new with some preloaded browser apps, which seems strange seeing as Google rely strongly on ad revenue?!) Unless Chrome syncs browser apps between my old Windoze machine and this new one (old machine couldn’t cope with certain sites (inc yours truly!) and used lock up constantly)

Chrome and Firefox on Win 10 here, pops up every 20 mins or so. Been doing it for the last few days!

Unless Chrome syncs browser apps between my old Windoze machine and this new one

If you’re signed in to it then that’s exactly what it does.