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Mar 27, 2021 | 10:23 pm

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becks1

Join Date: Jul 2016

Posts: 496

Quote:

Originally Posted by jbfield

Here are some more that I experience trying to look at this thread.

(Above) As can see - there is no way to close this add. It also causes the rest of the page to fail to load - it's just blank white space.
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(Below)
I have to wait a long time for the page to finish loading all it's built in adds and then I can scroll back to the thread page I was trying to look at. The add then appears towards the bottom:

(Below)
As you might see from the horizontal blue progress bar, the website tries to load some more (earlier screenshots indicate the browser thought it had finished loading...but each time I get to the post that I intend to read, the ads in between the earlier posts in the thread start to load and this changes the lenght of the thread, causing me to loose my place).

The floating add then changes to become even bigger

(Below) Then it turns into this one (also not able to close):

Then eventually after scrolls back yet again to the post I was trying to read I get this floating one appear:

Before I can click on the X to close it, the page crashes out:

I give up...

iPhone 6s
iOS 14.4.1
Browser: Safari

I have this same issue in every visit to the forum for the past 2 weeks.

The site is unusable on iOS 14.4.1 on iPhone X because it gets stuck on that error page. I’m lucky if I can read 2 posts before that occurs - and I can’t get the link to open to post a screenshot.

What a bummer, used to visit daily.

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