It is just me or do news websites freeze and almost crash browsers

BrokenArrows

This seems to be a common issue on pretty much all news websites with embedded video or an image gallery.

Certain websites cause my CPU to spike and im unable to scroll or change tabs in the brower for 10-15 seconds. My laptop is not a low power unit. Its a bit of a beast and should have no issues processing the website.

It happens on the few computers i have at work too and my phone.

One such example is:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-explosion-ludwigshafen-basf-chemical-factory-complex-missing-dead-injured-investigation-a7365516.html

But its not isolated to the independent.

Why cant news sites develop good websites. It seems we are going back to the days of ****ty website design.

Ush1

It's the amount of ads usually.

gramar

BrokenArrows wrote: »

One such example is:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-explosion-ludwigshafen-basf-chemical-factory-complex-missing-dead-injured-investigation-a7365516.html

But its not isolated to the independent.

Why cant news sites develop good websites. It seems we are going back to the days of ****ty website design.

In fairness this is by far the least of the Independent's problems.

BrokenArrows

Ush1 wrote: »

It's the amount of ads usually.

Yes its also the ads but why cant ads also display without issues. These are also bad website design. An ad shouldnt freeze browsers.

B0jangles

Independent.co.uk is the only site that invariably freezes for me, sometimes I get a pop-up telling me that script is not responding, but not every time. I loathe the way they have autoplaying videos with so many of their stories, I just want to read the damn text, not have it blared at me!

Turtyturd

Is there a meta point of posting this on a site that can't be arsed addressing the issues ads cause for it's users?

GLaDOS

Yeah I've had the same problem with that same newspaper website recently

Raging_Ninja

Some advertising these days are essentially malware - either increasing load times on websites, to locking up a browser because they are so poorly designed to even hijacking mobile browsers full stop. And then the ad companies complain about adblockers and how they should be banned.

Nowadays modern browsers run individual tabs on different threads so one bad actor on a tab won't lock up the rest of the browser while your processor is coughing up blood trying to run through every command the ads are throwing at it.

Not all ads though are intended to cause harm, some are but in the main the aim is not hostile. However any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

mookishboy

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osarusan

Loads of ads, and those f**king videos that play automatically.

expectationlost

osarusan wrote: »

Loads of ads, and those f**king videos that play automatically.

yet they keep saying abblockers are evil, when they are necessary.