Hello, Holzklasse--

This can happen on pages where someone has posted a very large photo.

Paul

I no longer use FT on my computer just on mobile devices. That type of use (with autocorrect and less formatting) lessens the content value for us all. I get FT has to make money and we can pay to go ad free but the basic site should at least work. It crashes my entire browser regularly on my laptop and even hotel business center computers. Sadly the ads will slowly push away frequent users from posting valuable content and it will just be newbies asking the same things over and over. We welcome newbies but just sad to see what's happening here.

What browser and version are you having trouble using FT on, with your computer? And what exactly happens (you say "crash" but that means many different things).

Thank you

If his use is anything like mine.

Win 7, FF 44.0.02, currently the only tab I have open is FT and it is consuming 500k of memory.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2cftdp1.jpg

http://i67.tinypic.com/2ee9847.jpg


And then sometimes Flash goes absolutely nuts and goes through the roof and causes the browser to be unstable until it does become unusable.

http://i67.tinypic.com/a0b8lv.jpg

Flash consumes the entire Firefox browser...all windows freeze and I have to restart. Same happens with Internet Explorer on my laptop and public computers.

Ibobi, the redirect game of war style guff is back, same kind of address pops up, just started now, usual iphone in the uk region on the carriers network. Let me know what let you find it last time as it seemed you managed to stop them last time once i had identified the ad that was causing it on my phone.

I haven't seen any issues for the past few weeks.
Other, non-credit-card ads, have appeared for me.

"break the internet" being tongue-in-cheek, I assume. The idea of using a hosts file like that is not unreasonable, but needs to be properly curated. A lot of the listed hosts are indeed ad sites or data-collecting sites, but some are rather more critical. To take the most glaring example: the list includes both www.google.com and www.google-analytics.com. Including the latter will cut down on Google's collecting data, with generally no ill effects; including the former, not so much.

I will pass this up the chain on the chance something can be done.

Ibobi, curiously it disappeared as quickly as it started, i'll let you know if it reappears!

To partly repeat myself, it wasn't a strategic design - just an attempt to restore usability that morning. As it happens the effects have been sufficiently minimal that I haven't gone back to it yet to refine or remove entries, which is not good for IB overall but an unintentional side effect of the aggression on the ads that are running.

As mentioned above IE (actually Defender) fixed the Google one as local redirection of that is apparently a common malware attack that it protects against.

I'm in wayyyyyy over my head from a technical perspective here, so this post isn't likely to be of any value, but it seems like the Hilton Hhonors forum has gotten really bogged down with something over the last couple days. Other fora seem fine!

I'm not sure what I would have done to trigger it, but today I have been getting a tidal wave of different video ads... they are basically dressed up to look like a YouTube clip but I'm assuming they're just some proprietary flash thing. Mostly for household cleaning products and health related things. When they open up on every tab it renders the forum unusable.

Not seeing them on any other website I visit.

I use IE11 and Win7.

I've mentioned it before but the health videos have become so disruptive we've had to block FT at work ( a few people use it!).

Sadly it does actually break our internet. It's FT and only FT and sad that since a few months ago when reporting it with screenshots etc it's only got worse and incredibly disruptive. Noticed the same issue on my home pc for the first time last week.

I agree that the HHonors forum has something going on. The tool that tells me how many bytes per second my computer is downloading went crazy. It just ran and ran.

Although I would quibble with "Other fora seem fine!" HHonors and at least one other forum that I don't recall had unresponsive scripts that froze Firefox until it offered to stop them.

I didn't notice videos on the HHonors forum page, but downloading the full content of videos (without my requesting them) would be consistent with the boatload of bytes that maxed out my (limited) bandwidth for close to a minute.