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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAnyone else seen net slowdown on other sites?
Everythings at a slow crawl.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)I have
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)load. 1/2 the time now, at those sites I just click out of them; and that is a problem because usually the page starts to freeze up and it's hard to close the tab
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)they have at least four auto-run videos on each page view which slows my 'puter down to a crawl. I've complained to no avail.
Same nowadays with many news web sites and Twitter pages, although news sites usually only run one auto-start video per page.
I think they're doing this for the sake of smart phone uses that I assume are too damn lazy to click on the "start" arrow....
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)makes you scurry around trying to find which one so i can shut it down....
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)I hear uninvited yacking starting to come out of my computer......
Could be a very serious issue for anyone surfing at work!......
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)which slows my 'puter down.
Maybe there's some new internet bugs floating around they're trying to stay ahead of......
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)USPS.com is maddening these days, as well as Outlook Express and many others. I've had to tell myself often that we didn't always live in an instant world.
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SKKY
(11,821 posts)I haven't noticed a difference, and being in Indiana, I fully expected to.