Wonder what makes your DZ.com surfing experience so slow?

[Scrumpot 1]

I mean REALLY, DZ.com? ...(see attached screenshot)

I know that it costs $ to "keep the lights on" - but seriously, you think all THIS is within reason??

Can't even fit all the sites my browser has to detect (and then in my case personally at least - also BLOCK) in one pane - that you surreptitiously need to ping out to, before displaying my selected forum page!!!

This is easily the most EGREGIOUS "selling us out" I think of any site, anywhere - I have ever seen! Period.

Seriously mods. ...Seriously?

coitus non circum - Moab Stone

[IanHarrop 43]

I was curious so I checked using the same tool after browsing around the forums for a while the most I got was 4

I wonder why yours and mine are so different?

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[Scrumpot 1]

Directed by DNS location, maybe?

*(IOW - us wasteful dumb Americans need/deserve more ads?) ...No need to "sniff" for frugal Cannucks!

IDK.

My AVERAGE hit count (collusion blocks) per dropzone.com page, is 10.

coitus non circum - Moab Stone

[jcd11235 0]

US here.

Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

[quade 4]

I'm guessing here, but thinking it's not so much the ads as the number of cookies you've allowed to be placed on your computer as a result of them. And not just here, but everywhere.

http://www.donottrackplus.com/howitworks.php

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Scrumpot 1]

Nope. These are sites you (dropzone.com) are affiliating/controlling/directing the pings. You will see that my settings are instead, actually blocking them. Granted this chart is result of maybe 4 or 5 pages of uncleared accumulation - but at anywhere from 4 (on the low end) to 12-15 (and lets say 8 on average) unique (it does not show duplicates) "collusions" per dropzone.com page request - that's quite the portfolio you guys have now got "goin' on"!

coitus non circum - Moab Stone

[Squeak 17]

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Nope. These are sites you (dropzone.com) are affiliating/controlling/directing the pings. You will see that my settings are instead, actually blocking them. Granted this chart is result of maybe 4 or 5 pages of uncleared accumulation - but at anywhere from 4 (on the low end) to 12-15 (and lets say 8 on average) unique (it does not show duplicates) "collusions" per dropzone.com page request - that's quite the portfolio you guys have now got "goin' on"!

I dont get what the issue is. They provide you with a free (to you) service, they generate their revenue by other means.
They are certainly not alone in going this. Good luck and fortune to them, I hope they make a shit tonne of money from it.

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[BIGUN 1,488]

Well, than you seriously should not go anywhere on the Internet without a tracking blocker like the one Quade mentioned or Ghostery. etc... There's all kinds of "Internet training on tracking forum behaviors for marketing purposes. Remember when you used to get tons of trash in your mailbox because the marketers would sell each other their lists... Same thing. Welcome to the digital age.

http://onlinebusiness.about.com/od/gettingtrafficmarketing/tp/forum-marketing.htm

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[popsjumper 2]

And all this time I thought it was the 2100 baud modem.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[ryoder 1,590]

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And all this time I thought it was the 2100 baud modem.

"You had a modem? You were lucky!
We just had an old telegraph; We had to tap out the 1's and 0's by hand.
...
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you."

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[JohnMitchell 16]

I'm replying to your post using punchcards in Fortran. How do ya like that?

[Andy9o8 2]

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And all this time I thought it was the 2100 baud modem.

"You had a modem? You were lucky!
We just had an old telegraph; We had to tap out the 1's and 0's by hand.
...
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you."

You had a telegraph? We had to use a rock.

[Abedy 0]

Hmmm, I use Opera and can keep an eye on tracking sites etc with Ghostery. It only lists 5 tracking sites; that's about much the average of social sites AFAIK... So I don't see any real need to complain.

The sky is not the limit. The ground is.

The Society of Skydiving Ducks

[Meso 38]

I made this post in the other forum thread, but felt the need to paste it here too.

This thread seems to be over-hyping what is typically a non-issue...

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Perhaps some misunderstanding exists as to what the domains that are 'informed' are...

These are mostly sites that we use to either provide functionality or to display ads.

First, you're able to throw away a ton of those URLs because they are associated with basic site functionality.

- google.com
- gstatic.com (part of google)
- google.analytics
- facebook.net (our 'like' buttons access facebook)
- facebook.com (associated with facebook buttons)
- fbcdn.net (associated with facebook buttons)
- mt1.googleapis.com (our dropzone finder map uses this)
- mt0.googleapis.com (our dropzone finder uses this too)
- doubleclick.net (google ads)
- googlesyndication.com (associated with google)

So you can already scrap those for basic site functionality.

Then there are things like adzerk.net and adtech. These are our advertising hosts, to understand how advertising works, is that we use a certain host and then they 'serve' us ads to use. And when they serve different ads from different sources, you will see those sources come up in that list too.

There is no 'selling out', the ads that we server are the exact same as most sites on the net.

Remember that as with any site that uses an ad host, we don't control every ad that gets displayed, but when we do locate an ad that is causing problems (load times, intrusive etc) we then contact the ad host and ask that they remove it from the inventory used for dropzone.com. You can go through our suggestions and bugs forums for evidence of this.

I can assure you that our ad serving is very regular and on par with most other sites out there (excluding massive multi-billion dollar corporations).

[quade 4]

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And all this time I thought it was the 2100 baud modem.

"You had a modem? You were lucky!
We just had an old telegraph; We had to tap out the 1's and 0's by hand.
...
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you."

You had a telegraph? We had to use a rock.

Rock? Oh, we used to dream of having a rock. We used to have to wake up, 2:30 in the morning, half hour before we went to bed, walk across the broken glass, up hill and against the wind, dig a coal mine with our bare hand just to be able to scrape a few bits of dust off our clothes to make a fire, then weave a blanket and send smoke signals just to text a girl to make a booty call.

Rock?!? You had it easy!

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Andy9o8 2]

You had booty?

Pfft.....

[popsjumper 2]

Well Hell Yeaah!
It turns out my 1200 baud modem is the ROCKET SURGERY shitz!
I'm in the first-class traveling section!


But, hell's bells...I wonder where Quade is getting the booty?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[billeisele 130]

But, hell's bells...I wonder where Quade is getting the booty?

[Andy9o8 2]

FWIW...
When I'm not using my phone, usually I view DZ.com on Firefox on a couple of different desktop computers at various locations (sometimes IE if that's the only browser available). Anyhow, you know that that little circle-icon that rotates round & round while the page is loading... I notice that very often the icon in whatever tab that has DZ.com up on it just keeps rotating on & on without end, apparently indicating it's in "still loading" mode, unless I click the Stop icon in the browser to make it stop. This happens no matter what computer I'm using, from whatever location. Obviously there has to be a reason for that....

Just FYI.

[christelsabine 1]

That little green thingy, turning endlessly ....

While, in the meantime, I open 3 or more sites w/in seconds, reading mails ....

.... that little green thingy still is turning and turning ....

and at the bottom of the side still is shown:

"waiting for ..... (ad etc.)
"waiting for ..... "

Happens at home and in the office (2 computers at work).

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[Andy9o8 2]

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That little green thingy, turning endlessly ....

While, in the meantime, I open 3 or more sites w/in seconds, reading mails ....

.... that little green thingy still is turning and turning ....

and at the bottom of the side still is shown:

"waiting for ..... (ad etc.)
"waiting for ..... "

Happens at home and in the office (2 computers at work).

Yes, in fact it's happening now - the bar at the bottom says "Transferring data from partner.googleadservices.com..."