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Originally Posted by wa2ise
I noticed today that these two forum sites never seem to finish loading data from various domain addresses (I think that's the correct term  ). That the Firefox green tailchasing circular icon (the thing in the left part of the tab at the top of Firefox's screen) never stops spinning. Maybe I caught a virus, but other web sites are not doing this. I also see a box in the lower left of the Firefox window saying "Transferring data from images.sv.us.criteo.net..." right now (9:40 PM EDT, Sept 24th). |
That is a poorly behaved advertising server that is being bloated and slow.
You could run something like Adblock Plus to eliminate the annoyance.
If you feel bad for disabling advertising on a good site, donate directly.