Why LJ sucks, #626

[andrewducker]

I just told AdBlock to block scorecardresearch.com, outboundlink.net, scnt.rambler.ru, top3list.ru and tns-counter.ru.

Suddenly, LJ loads in half the time.

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ooer. None of the above show up in the A-B console.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

that was what I found too. What page on LJ were they being loaded from?

[andrewducker]

Hmm. Tis possible that they're on a particular layout that a friend is using...

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Were you logged in to a paid acct?

[matgb]

Outboundlink is the specific link redirector, needs an outgoing link to trigger on mouseover, the rest I don't know.

[andrewducker]

Yup, but it looks like something in their layout. Not a general LJ thing at all. Alert over!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Maybe they should change their layout!

[andrewducker]

I'm getting scorecardresearch.com on this page.

None of the others though. I'll look about and see what pages they do show up on.

[matgb]

Outboundlink is the link redirector, so it'll show up on a page that has external links.

I fin the idea so obnoxious it's the second domain to be aded to this machine's hosts file, with me not using ablock. I'm guessing it might be a plan for me to add it now, blocking stuff that I hate manually is getting to annoying now.

Remember that link to a really cool brige design you put up a month or so back, I think it was the Hong Kong one that changes sides? I could not get there directly from LJ, had to go to your delicious and click there, it was that that finally prompted the hosts file use.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I turned that stuff off through the lj console, but can't remember the runes offhand.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That rings a bell. I'm fairly sure I did that the first time Teh Drama about it broke.

[darkoshi]

This page was where I got the info on turning it off thru the LJ Admin Console:
http://antumbral.dreamwidth.org/164338.html