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This page made my laptop scream. It never stopped trying to load something. I run ABP, perhaps that's the "fault?" I also tried to find a sensible place to poi

by a3n 11y ago

This page made my laptop scream. It never stopped trying to load something. I run ABP, perhaps that's the "fault?" I also tried to find a sensible place to point that out to the BBC, but nothing was obviously (to me) the right place.

Retra 11y ago
You could try using Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/en/. https://www.ghostery.com/en/.) For me the page loads slower than most, but not problematically so.
- cpncrunch 11y ago
  Seems to work fine on my MBP. I'm just annoyed by the dumb parallax scrolling which covers up the title when you're trying to read it. Parallax was cool on Amigas in the 80s, but today in web pages it's just flashy and annoying.
teh_klev 11y ago
Forget trying to report technical faults to the BBC, every road leads to obfuscation, misdirection and frustration. They don't provide support for anything or anyone. This includes TV License payers. They even discontinued what little real time interaction they had with viewers when they abandoned the iPlayer forums a few years back. Even if you do manage to report "something", it takes them weeks to respond, if at all. I rarely consume BBC products and services these days, and after the Scottish Independence referendum I no longer trust them as a competent news source. They're a bit of a running joke to many folks in Scotland, especially news and affairs output from Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland) [0][1]. 0: http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/ 1: http://newsnet.scot/citizen/ http://newsnet.scot/citizen/
recursive 11y ago
I'm not running any ad blocking, and had a similar experience.
ashmud 11y ago
Without JS enabled on FF39, it looks like a nice WAP-era mobile page.
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ghostly_s 11y ago
No issues here in Firefox. I even disabled uBlock Origin and didn't notice any issue. Not about to allow flash, though...
serve_yay 11y ago
I wish every HN link had a separate comments section where people bitch about the page the news was served on.

by a3n 11y ago

Retra 11y ago

You could try using Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/en/. https://www.ghostery.com/en/.) For me the page loads slower than most, but not problematically so.

cpncrunch 11y ago
Seems to work fine on my MBP. I'm just annoyed by the dumb parallax scrolling which covers up the title when you're trying to read it. Parallax was cool on Amigas in the 80s, but today in web pages it's just flashy and annoying.

teh_klev 11y ago

Forget trying to report technical faults to the BBC, every road leads to obfuscation, misdirection and frustration. They don't provide support for anything or anyone. This includes TV License payers. They even discontinued what little real time interaction they had with viewers when they abandoned the iPlayer forums a few years back. Even if you do manage to report "something", it takes them weeks to respond, if at all. I rarely consume BBC products and services these days, and after the Scottish Independence referendum I no longer trust them as a competent news source. They're a bit of a running joke to many folks in Scotland, especially news and affairs output from Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland) [0][1]. 0: http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/ 1: http://newsnet.scot/citizen/ http://newsnet.scot/citizen/

recursive 11y ago

I'm not running any ad blocking, and had a similar experience.

ashmud 11y ago

Without JS enabled on FF39, it looks like a nice WAP-era mobile page.

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ghostly_s 11y ago

No issues here in Firefox. I even disabled uBlock Origin and didn't notice any issue. Not about to allow flash, though...

serve_yay 11y ago

I wish every HN link had a separate comments section where people bitch about the page the news was served on.