I Use AdBlock For a Reason

Mike Lucey

hi,
back online with sketchucation !
I thought it wasn't going to happen. Seemed I couldn't get past the ad blocking thing.
Searched trough all my windows settings, all my firefox settings, all my norton settings nothing seemed to work. Finally I found a small add-on (I completely forgot about) DoNotTrackMe from Abine where buysellads is mentioned in the list of to block tracking cookies from. Allowed it, just for this site, and ... presto ! Slow but it works again.
@notareal,
with this add-on I could allow buysellads to have permission for just the site of sketchucation. I am not technical enough to know if this overcomes your objections towards allowing bysellads in sketchucation? But perhaps the info could help.
greetings,
erikB

Thanks for the update Erik. Good that you located the DoNotTrackMe add-on. I wonder if the folks that are having some problems might also be using this add-on

Mike

jaceguay

I´m not using any addon but my office firewall block everything but the ads at the botton of the page. I guess I´ll have to get used to it.

jaceguay

I don´t use any ad-block or firewall software, I guess It is blocked in the network at the IT department, I work at at a large company +1000 employes and can´t talk to the IT department to disable the firewall for my connection. Even If I become a premium user I will be forbidden to download?

Mike Lucey

@jaceguay said:

....... Even If I become a premium user I will be forbidden to download?

Hi jaceguay,

Premium Members have the option of using AdBlock if they so wish while viewing / downloading. I am sure you will be delighted with what we offer our Premium Members and probably will wonder why you have not taken up Premium Membership all along.

Mike

Krisidious

I for one enjoy advertising at places that interest me. I have yet to see an advertising unit here that does not sell something that is related to my field. It keeps me abreast of current technology and pricing and deals. Now the new egg ads that follow me all over the rest of the internet trying to sell me things that I've already bought on new egg... that's annoying.

jaceguay

@krisidious said:

I for one enjoy advertising at places that interest me. I have yet to see an advertising unit here that does not sell something that is related to my field. It keeps me abreast of current technology and pricing and deals. Now the new egg ads that follow me all over the rest of the internet trying to sell me things that I've already bought on new egg... that's annoying.

The ads never bother me either but I can´t change the internet access configuration in my office.
Everything working fine now, thanks Mike, for the reply.

Mike Lucey

Glad to see its working for you jaceguay, enjoy your Premium Membership ...... BTW, you will be in time the SketchFab Pro Account raffle for Premium Members

Joe Wood

I've turned adblock off but still have intermittent loading problems. Sometimes, like this morning, I can come on here no problems, but then I can come back a couple hours later (like this visit) it'll again take a minute for New Posts, or any thread to load.

what might cause that intermittent loading issues I have?

Rich O Brien

ISP has issues connecting because of the volume accessing from that region maybe?

We may need a mirror in the US

Mike Lucey

@rich o brien said:

ISP has issues connecting because of the volume accessing from that region maybe?

We may need a mirror in the US

When funding allows

blatterjr

This is unfortunate. I don't have adblocking or any other restrictions (Chrome)... so it's being blocked by the firewall.

Joe Wood

Has anything been figured out about what can be done about this
waiting on: buyselladds?

I haven't followed the troubleshooting talk, is it a firewall issue, or something else I can change at my end?

sometimes in the morning (like now) there's no lag, but during the day and evening, it's terrible, and I often just give up and leave. I bet you're loosing alot of visitors. I hope you can figure this out.

EDIT It took almost 5 minutes for this to post ..

Rich O Brien

It is simply to do with the fact your are in the US and the server is in Germany. If there is lots of US visitors then you may experience slow speeds.

In the EU it is zippy.

We are exploring CDN or mirroring for the US but this cost $$$ per month.

If more US members can confirm Joe's speed tests then we will seriously look at it. But so far the amount of complaints is on 1 hand.

Run a poll, hold a survey...I really want our US visitors to enjoy the site as much as possible but we need more feedback