Extremely annoying adds

Is there something that can be done about those recent red and blue NetBeans 5.0 square advertisments? These things are extremely CPU intensive. They use 100% of my CPU. I know it's not a recent CPU (Atlhon thunderbird 1GHz), but nevertheless, advertisments should not consume that much CPU even on such an old system.

Of course, I could block advertisments to get rid of them or uninstall flash, but I don't want to block them because a site like codeguru needs the money from somewhere and I don't want to uninstall flash because some sites require it....

Advertisers should know that creating such ads will only push more people into using add-blockers.

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Originally Posted by Marc G

Of course, I could block advertisments to get rid of them or uninstall flash, but I don't want to block them because a site like codeguru needs the money from somewhere and I don't want to uninstall flash because some sites require it....

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It is best not to even mention the thought about blocking ads. Anything against the AUP should be refrained from.

EDIT: Of course, I didn't realize you were a moderator and so high up in the CodeGuru world. You know more about AUP and conduct in the forums than I do. Sorry.

I do agree, the flash ads have gotten way out of hand.

I know you best don't mention it, but those ads were just driving me crazy and like I said in my post I don't want to use a blocker because the money for running such a huge site as codeguru needs to come from somewhere. I know from personal experience how expensive hosting and especially bandwidth can be.
In fact, I have something against ad blockers. Because of them some sites that were free in the past aren't free anymore nowadays :(

Yes, I understand. I am sorry, as you can see in my edit. :cry:

It takes on my machine nearly 100% of CPU - this is rediculous.

This is UNACCEPTABLE!

Yeah... it seems I am facing the same issue as well... At my home.. I have a not a very fast internet connection and I thought the was the reason for slow page loads on CG. But when I used to see the mem usage in WTM.. I usually found that the Iexplore.exe with CG opened was taking way too much memory than others... it slows everything..

//Had CG been a ASP.NET application - user controls could have had been used for partial caching of those add portions.. that would have had helped the loading much faster I guess.. I am not sure what's the alternative with php.

Is 100% CPU consumption the fault of the advertisement itself or a bug in the Active X control (Macromedia Flash)... ? Typically those who make advertisements and work on images wouldn't know/think/test-for CPU consumption.

I am also curious to know if the web-page reduced performance of other applications? How long did it consume 100% CPU?

Currently the memory usage is quite low --- about 1350 K .. but the cpu usage for the CG windows is 95% plus :eek: (i dont know what may be the reason).. i think i need to close it and then reopen...

//i have 3 GHz CPU .. and 1 GB ram...

Ah, I'm glad it's not only on my PC :)

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Originally Posted by Siddhartha

Is 100% CPU consumption the fault of the advertisement itself or a bug in the Active X control (Macromedia Flash)... ? Typically those who make advertisements and work on images wouldn't know/think/test-for CPU consumption.

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It's the fault of the creator of the ad.

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Originally Posted by Siddhartha

I am also curious to know if the web-page reduced performance of other applications? How long did it consume 100% CPU?

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It slows down everything. It keeps using 100% of the CPU until you browse to another page without that ad.

Sometimes my search box doesn't even pop up, under these ads and when it eventually decide to pop up, it is very slow, and while typing into the box I have to like "pause" inbetween, because the characters I type, takes a while to display!
It should be stopped or made less CPU intensive!

Ok, I finally saw the ad. It took about 1/3rd of CPU cycles. What version of Flash player are each of you running? Thanks

Sorry JP but I don't think that should make any difference. There should not be any adds that takes 100% of CPU regardless of what's installed on user's machine. Lots of people all arround the world are still running Win95 as of original version...

I get 50% usage with a dual core 3 GHz Xeon processor from both Firefox 1.5.0.1 and IE 6 (same version as cilu, didn't feel like typing it out).
Both browsers have flash player 8,0,22,0 installed.

And that's if only one page has the ad. I like to open in new tabs and that makes it worse if the ad comes up more than once. Loss of usage with the mouse wheel and points where the browser is not responsive.

FYI -- This is being looked into.

Brad!