topic Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading in Buying

eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:43:19 GMT

how can I get rid of the Ebay plus banner advertising on My eBay, there is a 5 second delay to the page loading which is disconcerting indeed, I tried to eliminate it with my Adblock but that is only temporary, eBay have many annoying habits, but this one is really getting to me

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:37:09 GMT

No banners on any of my pages. I use AdBlock Plus on this browser (Opera) and AdBlocker Genesis Plus on Chrome. I never see any ads or banners of any description in either browser.

Which ad block extension are you using?

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

gutterpunkz05 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:48:35 GMT

Sorry can't help, as I have no banner to get rid of.

5 secs ..... obviously you were not around in the early days of internet dial-up

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

tazzieterror — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:55:10 GMT

I use Pi-hole - blocks just about everything.

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:59:45 GMT

@gutterpunkz05 wrote:
Sorry can't help, as I have no banner to get rid of.
5 secs ..... obviously you were not around in the early days of internet dial-up

Oh yes, I remember those days. If you were going to view a page with photos, you'd start loading the page and then go have a shower, or go shopping or something. By the time you got back, they might be nearly loaded.

I was one of the early users of Napster (illegal file sharing program for those too you to know......only at that point, I didn't know it was illegal). The first song I ever downloaded was Dire Straits, Going home. It was a 5mb files (so pretty carp quality). It took over 6 hours to download!

I had a 2.1GB hard drive, with 64 meg of RAM and a 33.6K modem. I was the flavour of the street because most others that owned a PC had less than a GIG HDD, 16MB of RAM and a 28.8K modem.

I always hated when you were 3/4 of the way downloading something, and the darned phone would ring! That was the end of that download LOL! I remember when I finally went broadband (it was 2002). The phone rang and I was still connected! That blew me away.

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

tazzieterror — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:08:41 GMT

We had a Pentium 90 at home when most other kids were using a 486.

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:17:41 GMT

HA!! Mine was a Pentium 110. Suck on that one! The neighbours had a 486. Sucked to be them.

Edited to add: We're showing our age I think!

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:39:34 GMT

I'm using Chrome so will check out other adblock programs

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:40:25 GMT

thanks

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:41:54 GMT

I was online from 1998, know very well what slow means, but I don't pay for slow now, nor should a page put content that slows my browsing or loading

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

sandypebbles — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:50:45 GMT

I honestly do not know of many pages without ads that waste space and time

Hence why ad blockers are around

I have the NBN which is total bs, so even with a proper ad blocker, I can only dream of something loading within five seconds

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

davewil1964 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:08:46 GMT

I downloaded Tubular Bells (amongst many others) from Napster.

I had a you beaut 33.6k modem on a Pentium 133 running Win 95, which was cutting edge in 1996. Left it going overnight and ended up taking a tad over 12 hours. Can't remember the file size.

I was getting the Plus banner, but it seems to have disappeared. Which is good, because my modem died yesterday and USB Dongle modems are apparently so 2019, and I'm running my computer internet through my phone. Which is slow and rips the backside out of the phone battery.

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:34:56 GMT

I did a speed test yesterday, getting 25Mbps download, that is because of copper connections, maybe fibre will come one day to get 1000Mbps speeds.

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

ferrobilt — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:36:40 GMT

I use NBN, fortunately the node is very close, but 25 Mbps download speed is the max, the original fibre to the premises of Labor would have given me 1000Mbps speeds, no chance of that now

Re: eBay plus banner delaying page loading

bikeden — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 06:15:41 GMT

Microsoft DOS 3.2
Intel 80286
Netcomm 2400bps modem
BBS only. Internet not even invented.

Did anyone else see 'Valley of the Boom' on SBS recently and the Netscape, 'browser wars' ?