is it only for me - this forum eats almost all the memory on my MacBook (to be exact a tab with the forum, any browser). It is practically unusable on my old iPad (everything else works fine). Now it is showing video clips at the bottom, and I am on a very weak cell reception. When I type a message often I get "there was a problem with the page, page will be reloaded" and I have to type all over again.
I’m finding a lot of the ads not just here but other forums are resource hogs. Since I appreciate this forum, I became a subscriber and got a lot of relief. Bob Wilson
I have a Mac book Air and will often have 2 or 3 tabs open and never have had any trouble. I often have the general form on one tab, the Kona forum on another tab and the Volvo xc40 forum open on a third tab. Still no problem I live in the country with satellite internet which is not great but still no issues.
Unless you become a subscriber, the number of ads are over-the-top without an ad blocker. I've found the web site unusable when viewing on my Android phone due to the number of ads, and no longer visit this web site when away from my PC. On my PC, I use an ad blocker that allows acceptable ads. Unfortunately, this web site doesn't follow the guidelines for acceptable ads, so almost all of their ads are blocked. Anyhow, if they start to block me, then I'll stop visiting. I spend too much time here anyhow, so that will probably be a good thing.
I stopped using ad blockers long time ago, I understand that ads are necessary to support the site and the owner (I have my own site). So I do not mind ads at all. But when the amount of ads interfere with site usability - looks like I will have to follow your steps and install adblock (or move to a similar site). And (in my opinion) video ad that starts playing by itself is absolutely not the best idea ever.
Try downloading the inside EVs forum app. I don’t see any adds and it doesn’t seem to eat up a bunch of memory on my iPhone.
If your browsing goes through a configurable proxy, you can set it to deny connections to the ad-site domains used by insideevs. This is a fairly complete list-- . blueconic.net, sellwild.com, crwdcntrl.net, threadloom.com, adthrive.com which you'd need to adapt to your own wildcard format. For me, these get "sunk" without even logging the denials, so my participation is unhampered. If you don't proxy, you might be able to set up a special browser config for reading the forums which proxies everything, but has "no proxy" for insideevsforum.com specifically. I think Firefox, for example, has selectable profiles you can work under, with separate proxy settings. That's an easy way to have a short "allow" list of target sites. And most "autoplay" functionality should be under your own control. _H*
Hi all. If you ever see a popup ad or an autoplay video, please take a screenshot and share it. We have a policy against these but every once in a while one slips through.
Maybe while you opened the forum once or even the first time, some viruses attacked your devices. I don't think it's the forum that takes all your memory.
As you resurrected 2-year-old thread, I've decided to check - does that forum still eats a lot of memory or not (btw, I am an IT engineer). Here it is, top 4 memory eaters on my MacBook:
This site really seems to slow down my machine, and pages take a long time to fully render. When my machine starts giving me Low Memory warnings, the first thing I do is close the tab that has this site open.
