PRIUSchat -- what happened to the ads -- are they no more? -- is that the trouble with site issues?

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  1. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Prodigyplace says I'm Super Kris

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    So, this morning, was having trouble getting onto the site, as was everyone, but the few times I reached an actual page, there was some strange potato ad floating all around the page.

    But, now that things are back to "normal" I see no ads on the pages whatsoever.

    Strange.

    Is the morning problem connected to problems with ads...
     
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    i have a weather tech banner, and 3 ads among the stupid thread promo's at the bottom. suburu, chevy truck and car wax superstore. sight is working well right now.
     
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    Huh, they must know I have no $$$. No ads at all -- there is a 12" X 3" blank spot at the bottom of my pages, though.
     
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    I have a Nissan ad at the top of this page as I'm typing, and the usual grid at the bottom of mostly PC links. Also, "weather tech" and "chevy truck" in @bisco 's post are links to other sites.

    Looks normal to me right now and it's really snappy once again.
     
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    cyberpriusII Prodigyplace says I'm Super Kris

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    Huh, strange. I have FireFox, which just updated today. And my AV program is Avast. Other than that, I am not doing anything special to block ads.

    Know I am not complaining at all about having no ads....And, things are working perfectly....well, as long as Moderators don't notice that I am a freeloader.
     
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    I usually use Firefox, but am trying to migrate to Safari because Firefox has become such a CPU hog lately, especially on this site. You'd think I was rendering a 4K video the way the fans run when I'm on PC using Firefox.
     
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    cyberpriusII Prodigyplace says I'm Super Kris

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    FF is using an average of 5.1 percent of my CPU at the moment. But I have a total of five totally different sites open, including PRIUSchat.
     
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    what does it mean when the whole page is messed up? words in the wrong places, some overlaying others, missing graphics, etc?
     
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    On my Mac, FF uses about 8-20% of the i-7 on PC with a couple other tabs open. Close PC and it drops to about 3%. Running about 4% now in Safari with three PC tabs and two others. I have no idea what Mozilla did to the program. Or maybe it's one of my plugins. Oh well, I will adapt. :D

    I think that's part of the database problem. When it was really bad this AM, I'd get that or else just a blank screen saying there was an unexpected database error. there were a variety of scrambles, too.
     
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    exactly. keep refreshing the blank screen, and eventually you get alphabet soup.:cool:
     
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    Yup. It's like a slot machine. :ROFLMAO:
     
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    Could be dyslexia, or not enough water with the moonshine... who knows?
     
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