dampfpanzerwagon  | 22 Mar 2017 6:31 a.m. PST |
I have noticed over the last year that when I browse e-bay, my computer is slowing down – almost to the point of freezing. I believe it is the amount of adverts that are now appearing on the e-bay home page. Is there anything I can do to change this. If it continues, I will have to restrict my e-bay trading/buying. Tony |
 Extra Crispy  | 22 Mar 2017 6:35 a.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 22 Mar 2017 6:45 a.m. PST |
Mine's been doing that for a very long time too. Complain to eBay. Probably won't do any good, but it just might, if enough people do. I've got the same issue(s) with number news source pages too, and Photobucket is one of the worst, almost to the point of being unusable. |
| Allen57 | 22 Mar 2017 6:45 a.m. PST |
Yes Tony, I am having this problem with a number of sites including eBay. Have not tried AdBlock Plus will have to give it a go. Really love some of the messages I get saying that for $5 USD per month I wont get all the ads. |
| Reactionary | 22 Mar 2017 6:47 a.m. PST |
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| Deeman | 22 Mar 2017 7:50 a.m. PST |
Once the auctions load in hit the stop button on your browser to halt the adds loading. Has worked for me. |
It is good to be King  | 22 Mar 2017 7:53 a.m. PST |
I agree with Extra Crispy….use Adblock Plus |
| emckinney | 22 Mar 2017 9:37 a.m. PST |
Most likely Flash. Lab results show massive resource hogging. CTRL+ALT+DELETE, start Task Manager, Processes tab, click name to sort by alpha, see how much memory and CPU Flash is using. |
| Stryderg | 22 Mar 2017 9:41 a.m. PST |
This might get deep into the woods, so please feel free to ignore this post if you get lost (and leave breadcrumbs so you can find your way back). It could be a DNS issue. I've seen some computers using really remote and slow DNS servers as supplied by their ISP.
Edit your IP settings and use 8.8.8.8 as your DNS server. If that doesn't help, then edit your IP setttings and put it back to "get DNS server automatically". |
| boy wundyr x | 22 Mar 2017 10:16 a.m. PST |
Happened to me yesterday, first time I really noticed it. Had two ebay pages open and they were collectively using almost all available memory. |
| dandiggler | 22 Mar 2017 10:35 a.m. PST |
When was the last time you cleared your cache? More add ons are rarely the answer… |
| daler240D | 22 Mar 2017 11:08 a.m. PST |
Adblocker Plus is a requirement in today's internet. You can disable it for friendly sites like TMP though. |
| napthyme | 22 Mar 2017 12:21 p.m. PST |
In May ebay is supposed to be limiting there outside advertising for internal advertising by there sellers. |
| Grimmnar | 22 Mar 2017 11:11 p.m. PST |
On a desktop or laptop AdBlock will correct this.
I have been experience this on my tablet for more than 6 or 8 months now. Especially when I try and type in the "search" field. Really slows it to a crawl. AdBlock on the tablet don't help in Chrome. I am at a loss in Chrome to correct the issue. On a side note, using the Internet app that comes preloaded has no issues at all. No slowdown or lag at all. But I don't like that browser. Anyone know a resolution to this for Chrome on a mobile platform please share. Grimm |
| napthyme | 24 Mar 2017 1:02 p.m. PST |
Grimm, Avast AVG has a plug in for the desktop that does ad blocking, look and see if there mobile version does the same. |
