Waiting for tag.contextweb.com

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Forum users are experiencing significant slow loading times in Firefox and Chrome due to delays from the ad server tag.contextweb.com, often taking minutes to load. The issue persists regardless of whether users are logged in or not, prompting some to refresh pages frequently to bypass the delay. There are speculations about potential discrimination against Linux users, but the primary concern remains the ad server's performance. Users have reported intermittent improvements, possibly linked to a data center move, but the problem reoccurs regularly. Some have opted to remove the ad service as a temporary solution to mitigate the loading issues.
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At the moment, forum pages load very slowly in Firefox. The message "waiting for tag.contextweb.com" appears for a long time. Can Firefox be configured to skip loading anything from that server?
 
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I get the same delay - I'm using Chrome. But once I sign in, everything is fine.
 
I'm logged-in and I still get the delay. What paranoid theory can I find to explain this? Discrimination against Linux users?
 
This happens every day, all the time, logged in or not. Usually I refresh the page until I get an ad from a different server. Otherwise it takes minutes -- yes, minutes -- to load.
 
Same problem here.
 
Ben Niehoff said:
This happens every day, all the time, logged in or not.

I don't share that experience, but it's broken again right now - way too slow to be useable.
 
Ben Niehoff said:
This happens every day, all the time, logged in or not. Usually I refresh the page until I get an ad from a different server. Otherwise it takes minutes -- yes, minutes -- to load.

I've sent an email to support, stay tuned.
 
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How is the situation now? They apparently were moving a data center.
 
  • #11
Seems fast now.
 
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Ben Niehoff said:
Seems fast now.

Good! Let me know if it slows down again
 
  • #13
As of the last few minutes, I'm having the problem again.

If I navigate away while the page is stalled and reload the page, it usually loads a the normal speed.
 
  • #14
I'm having the same trouble again (11:30 AM MST). Occasionally there is also a delay that displays a messages about waiting for amazon ads.
 
  • #15
It's happening again. It happens all the time, I don't think they care about your complaints.
 
  • #16
It's happening to me too at the moment.

Perhaps Ben and I waste too much time on the internet.
 
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It happens here too. It takes forever to load.
 
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Stephen Tashi said:
Perhaps Ben and I waste too much time on the internet.

Waiting for contextweb to load, yes.
 

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