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An interesting question would be how much of this can be attributed to readers from China and other countries that block Google. It's a common problem on other
by patrakov 6y ago
An interesting question would be how much of this can be attributed to readers from China and other countries that block Google. It's a common problem on other sites that loading of something non-important is attempted from Google servers, but the page doesn't render (i.e. doesn't show anything) until that ill-fated request times out.
- yorwba 6y agoGoogle's ad and tracking domains are mostly exempt from the Great Firewall: www.googleanalytics.com is not blocked ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.googleanalytics.com https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.googleanalytics.com ) while googleads.g.doubleclick.net was apparently blocked for a while but is currently accessible ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://en.greatfire.org/https/googleads.g.doubleclick.net ) EDIT: I just noticed that Gwern's article includes the URL of the ad script he embedded: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js. That one's not blocked either ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js https://en.greatfire.org/https/pagead2.googlesyndication.com... ) What tends to break sites is when they depend on ajax.googleapis.com, which has been blocked for years now ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/ajax.googleapis.com https://en.greatfire.org/https/ajax.googleapis.com )