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Originally Posted by tom911
(Post 29410428)
I still have that one trying to load in one of my open tabs: secure.adnxs.com.
Contrary to admin advice, I wasn't using any ad blocker, but installing one made the site usable again. |
Originally Posted by tom911
(Post 29410428)
I still have that one trying to load in one of my open tabs: secure.adnxs.com.
Originally Posted by mauve
(Post 29410578)
Yup. Forums are currently unusable for me in Safari and Chrome, looks like secure.adnxs.com is the culprit.
Contrary to admin advice, I wasn't using any ad blocker, but installing one made the site usable again. I don't have adblocker and it still took 10+ min for this page to load. using chrome and its the adnxs virus causing the problems. |
Originally Posted by mauve
(Post 29410578)
Yup. Forums are currently unusable for me in Safari and Chrome, looks like secure.adnxs.com is the culprit.
Contrary to admin advice, I wasn't using any ad blocker, but installing one made the site usable again. So now I have an ad blocker. Well done FT. p.s. I've been finding a lot of ads auto-playing audio in the past while too |
I finally managed a shot with my phone.
'Waiting for secure.adnxs.com...' and 'Waiting for adserver-us.adtech.advertising.com...' I will probably be able to make this post before it freezes again. That's in Safari. It's useless in Chrome. |
Originally Posted by IBobi
(Post 29410112)
Be sure to clear cache and turn off ad blockers.
Also, in addition to Safari being unusable, I can confirm what others have reported: Chrome doesn’t work either. In fact if anything, the symptom is worse; whereas only the tab containing FT crashes when using Safari, browsing FT on Chrome causes the entire browser to freeze, requiring a force-quit. Even Firefox for desktop is affected: the page never completes loading, so it’s impossible to post messages. The only device I have that allows me to visit FT is my iPad Pro running iOS 11.2.5. I concur with others that the problem appears to be a rogue ad containing either malformed or malicious JavaScript being served to desktop platforms. |
Yup, site is unusable now. maxes out cpu usage and massive memory usage as well Its not your browser or cache... I have the same issue across multiple computers and browsers. Just trying to navigate and load a page takes minutes, if it recovers and loads at all.
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Originally Posted by rylan
(Post 29411224)
Yup, site is unusable now. maxes out cpu usage and massive memory usage as well Its not your browser or cache... I have the same issue across multiple computers and browsers. Just trying to navigate and load a page takes minutes, if it recovers and loads at all.
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Same here. Each page taking about 3 minutes to load in chrome, with the 'waiting for secure.adnxs.com' note at the bottom of the screen. Unbearable.
I did read that Chrome will release a new version on Feb 15 (Thursday) with an integrated ad blocker... NOTE: I downloaded Chrome Ad Block....... and solved problem instantly. |
And during this time network activity spikes as well... sustained transfer for 60 seconds on the order of 30-40 MB data received, and also about 10MB sent.
... is transferring and requesting that much data? |
I'm finding the site unusable since last night, both in Firefox with Adblocker, and I.E. without one.
Adblocker is telling me it is stopping hundreds of items per minute. |
Originally Posted by mauve
(Post 29410578)
Yup. Forums are currently unusable for me in Safari and Chrome, looks like secure.adnxs.com is the culprit.
Originally Posted by dave_261
(Post 29411259)
NOTE: I downloaded Chrome ....... and solved problem instantly.
Originally Posted by IluvSQ
(Post 29411477)
I'm finding the site unusable since last night, both in Firefox with Adblocker, and I.E. without one.
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Last 18 to 24 hours FT is unusable. Pages won't load, or load very slowly. Not sure what the owners of FT are trying to accomplish but if it is to alienate ( can't use the words I would like to use) users then they are doing an outstanding job.
Not even an acknowledgement that there might be a problem. |
Hi guys, I've alerted our Ad Ops, and they're working on a fix (they were able to immediately reproduce it). "Adnxs" is probably what a lot of you are seeing.
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I have the "adnxs" problem on my Mac, but am now on my wife's Dell and able to log on. I wasn't going to post here and was just going to respond by "liking" posts, but the "Like" button is not working on this computer.
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Originally Posted by mauve
(Post 29410578)
Contrary to admin advice, I wasn't using any ad blocker, but installing one made the site usable again. Luckily I've not experienced it, but there's probably a good reason for that. Glad to hear IB was able to replicate it/hope they get it sorted soon. Cheers. |
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