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kscelt   04-28-2009 at 07:13:29 PM

The splash screen re-direct opening ad is annoying. Worse than that so many ad's have to load on article pages, it took me about two minutes with several attempts to get to the article i wanted - it kept hanging waiting for an ad server.

I like this site a lot for it's content but it's getting so junked up, the user experience is getting not worth it. I know ad's are necessary, but it's out of hand.

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GhislainG   07-03-2009 at 05:21:27 AM
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Adding 127.0.0.1 www.ad.tomshardware.com in your hosts file alleviates the problem.

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aziraphale   07-03-2009 at 10:38:43 AM
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Just use adblock plus; I wouldn't be watching this site without it anymore.

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Sraigux   07-09-2009 at 10:28:36 PM
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I agree, the redirect splash screen is a little inconvenient and the ads take forever to load (and I saw a scientology one, boy did that make me angry)

Btw. what is a hosts file?

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GhislainG   07-09-2009 at 11:04:25 PM
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Sraigux wrote :

I agree, the redirect splash screen is a little inconvenient and the ads take forever to load (and I saw a scientology one, boy did that make me angry)

Btw. what is a hosts file?

On Windows, the hosts file is in %windows%\system32\drivers\etc. It's purpose is explained in the file.

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coolblue   07-13-2009 at 08:12:03 PM
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aziraphale wrote :

Just use adblock plus; I wouldn't be watching this site without it anymore.



Thanks for the advice! I've never had to use an ad blocker before but I can't wait five minutes for every page in a twenty page article. :ouch:

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