Chromes been acting weird, I've had AdBlock on chrome for as long as I can remember, works great, takes out offending ads, sits up there in the corner doing it's thing.
Today whenever I try and go to a page it stalls, as if buffering, down in the corner a message of "waiting on AdBlock" appears, and the page won't come up.
Testing I brought up the extensions, and while two pages were "buffering" turned off the extension and the pages came right up, super fast. Turn it back on and the delay or even refusal to bring up the page happens.
Then when I googled a term to check spelling I got a capticha click here you aint a robot from Google, the URL was clearly google, and the display showed it was google, CLicked and the search appears.
Anyone else having issues?
Going to run a fresh install of Malwarebytes just to check, machine should be pretty clean Google shows some problems with AdBlock and Chrome,
It appears back in Feb Google activated a built in adblocker in chrome, most likely to block ads of companies that don't pay them a ransom lol wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Updated chrome to the latest version and still, no joy....
August 07, 2018, 06:03 PM
sig229-SAS
Almost identical issues here in NC, buffering like crazy but I didn't suspect AdBlock, I'll start playing with that and see what happens. It got so bad with my internet provider I moved to my iPhone's hot spot and most of it cleared up.This message has been edited. Last edited by: sig229-SAS,
August 07, 2018, 06:09 PM
HRK
malwarebytes scan shows system nominal....
August 07, 2018, 06:16 PM
.38supersig
Too many supercookies?
August 07, 2018, 08:22 PM
Rey HRH
I don’t know if my experience matches yours but Chrome was laggy and super slow for me.
What I determined by happenstance that was causing it was allowing Google to send me notifications. I killed all notifications and chrome sped right up.
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August 07, 2018, 09:00 PM
cyanide357
You don't want to use adblock / adblock+ any more. They allow companies to buy a spot on their allowed ads list (or so is my understanding).
You'd be better off uninstalling it and instead install "Ublock Origin" + "Privacy Badger" (and if you want, also "HTTPS Everywhere").
Privacy Badger & HTTPS Everywhere are both by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF).
August 07, 2018, 09:02 PM
ArtieS
I am using Avast Secure Browser which is built on Chrome. So far I'm happy with it.
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August 07, 2018, 11:43 PM
Jelly
Google Chrome works just fine for me and others around me. Stop using adblock obviously it is conflicting with chrome.
August 08, 2018, 07:47 AM
HRK
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Originally posted by Jelly: Google Chrome works just fine for me and others around me. Stop using adblock obviously it is conflicting with chrome.
Correct turn it off and the problem is solved, I'm aware of that, just was curious if it was me or others that have issues with the extension as well.
For several years it hasn't been a problem with millions of users have it installed, until a day ago it was fine obviously google has changed something as the lagging extension is Adblock you can see it displayed by google, turn it off and bam you are up and running and of course the Advertisements are back.
Its worked so well that I now see all the ads it's dumped over the years, amazing. Will load ublock and see what happens.
*** Update Ublock works for now without problems with AdBlock disabled, so that is good to go, thanks for the tip on Ublock. also added the others to see how they do. ***
August 08, 2018, 08:33 AM
P250UA5
Mine had been doing the same, giving ublock a try.
Edit: No change here on SF, but there was never really an issue with this site. Otherwise, it's like Chrome on steroids, so much faster now the AB+ is gone.