extremetech attention seeking ads

[Noggie]

These attention seeking ads needs to be removed, they were fine until they started seeking attention and slowing down the site to a crawl.

http://i.imgur.com/OcDhcJz.png

site: http://www.extremetech.com/

[mapx]

add and see if works

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@@||extremetech.com^$genericblock
@@||extremetech.com^$generichide

[Noggie]

Wow! Suddenly the site is as smooth as silk and very responsive. Doesn't hang the browser or stutter anymore.
Thank you!

[Noggie]

extremetech is at it again. Now the site is constantly running some javascript when I view the site. If I switch over to another tab the cpu usage reduces a bit.

Why can't they just play nice.

[mapx]

remove the filters above and add these blocking filters, see if it's better and check if breaks some functionality

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||extremetech.com/cszn/js/zd-email.min.js
||extremetech.com/s7ac/js/300/addthis_widget.js
||extremetech.com/sac/mostclicked/js/1.0.0/*
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/newsletter.js?*
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/stickybanner.js?*
||static.extremetech.com/pb/pb4.min.js

[Noggie]

Now it have gotten worse and each tab of the site allocates about 250 megabytes of memory.
Weird behavior. It loads and displays the site while a single cpu core at 100% than it continues to allocate memory until about 250 megabytes while cpu core goes up and down than stays at the same level at first reported, doing something.
Something fishy going on. Behaves like a site filled with malicious javascript code.

[mapx]

try also

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||extremetech.com/cszn/js/zd-email.min.js
||extremetech.com/s7ac/js/300/addthis_widget.js
||extremetech.com/sac/mostclicked/js/1.0.0/*
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/newsletter.js?*
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/stickybanner.js?*
||static.extremetech.com/pb/pb4.min.js
||static.extremetech.com/js/zdccg/1.0.2/zdccg.min.js?*
||extremetech.com/bs/beacon.js
||extremetech.com/cszn/js/*
||extremetech.com/scc/js/*
||extremetech.com/wgac/com/ga.js
||extremetech.com/czc/jst/tblwd_b.js
||extremetech.com/wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?*
|http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/foundation
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/extechgpt.js
||extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/modernizr.js?*

[Noggie]

Didn't work. Still the same and I sometimes see ads and/or "An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #<numbers, id or guid>".

I've also tested in chrome canary, in incognito window, a cleaned profile with only adblock.
I see no ads or error message but I see a gray empty sticker bar. The cpu issue is still there.

[mapx]

weird, my system is ok even without the filters above. Sure, it's a lot of memory used by all the elements of the site.
Did you scan for malware / adware ?
use malwarebytes antimalware (free version) ==> https://www.malwarebytes.org/
and adwcleaner http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

[Noggie]

Yes, I'm sure. Only that site is causing this problem. I have process explorer running always and a security program that would detect executable code (exe, dll, etc) not seen on the system before.
I'm confident I don't have any malware.

Retested in Firefox and for that browser it's the "plugin-container.exe" that spins up.

File url in pm.
When it gets unresponsive this is the code the profiler blames as the largest issue:

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                f.each(n, function(e) {
                    if (e && e.sheet && !e.sheet.disabled) {
                        var t = [];
                        if (y.is_ie && y.browser_version < 9)
                            t = e.styleSheet.rules || e.sheet.rules || e.sheet.cssRules;
                        else
                            try {
                                t = e.sheet.rules || e.sheet.cssRules
                            } catch (n) {}
                        f.each(t, function(e) {
                            if (-1 === Object.prototype.toString.call(e).indexOf("CSSKeyframes") && -1 === Object.prototype.toString.call(e).indexOf("DocumentRule"))
                                if (Object.prototype.toString.call(e).indexOf("MediaRule") > -1 || Object.prototype.toString.call(e).indexOf("StyleRule") > -1) {
                                    var t = e.cssText.match(s);
                                    if (null  !== t) {
                                        var n = e.cssText;
                                        f.each(f.uniq(t), function(e) {
                                            if ("#" == e.substring(0, 1)) {
                                                var t = f.find(f.keys(u), function(t) {
                                                    return 1 === e.indexOf(t)
                                                })
                                                  , r = e.replace(t, u[t]);
                                                n = n.replace(i(e), r)
                                            } else {
                                                var o = f.find(f.keys(a), function(t) {
                                                    return 1 === e.indexOf(t)
                                                })
                                                  , r = e.replace(o, a[o]);
                                                n = n.replace(i(e), r)
                                            }
                                        }),
                                        n.length > 0 && o.push(n)
                                    } else
                                        -1 === w.indexOf(e) && o.push(e.cssText)
                                } else if ("string" == typeof e.selectorText) {
                                    for (var n = e.cssText, r = []; t = s.exec(n); )
                                        f.each(t, function(e) {
                                            e = e.trim(),
                                            -1 === r.indexOf(e) && r.push(e)
                                        });
                                    r.length > 0 ? (r = f.sortBy(r, function(e) {
                                        return 0 - e.length
                                    }),
                                    f.each(r, function(e) {
                                        if (e.length > 0)
                                            if ("#" == e.substring(0, 1)) {
                                                var t = f.find(f.keys(u), function(t) {
                                                    return 1 === e.indexOf(t)
                                                })
                                                  , r = e.replace(t, u[t]);
                                                n = n.replace(i(e), r)
                                            } else {
                                                var c = f.find(f.keys(a), function(t) {
                                                    return 1 === e.indexOf(t)
                                                })
                                                  , r = e.replace(c, a[c]);
                                                n = n.replace(i(e), r)
                                            }
                                        n.length > 0 && o.push(n)
                                    })) : -1 === w.indexOf(e) && o.push(e.cssText)
                                }
                        })
                    }
                }),

[mapx]

try

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|http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/site.js?p=sJfdJ9HyjFjZ&r=

[Noggie]

It seems to be obsessing over this:

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<div id="TopMpu" class="adContainer" data-ns="portrait" data-pos="atf">
                   <script type="text/javascript">
                        googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('TopMpu'); });
                   </script>
				   <noscript><a href="hxxp://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jume=2">
                             <img src="hxxp://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/glt;/a>
				   </noscript>
                 </div>

[Noggie]

try

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|http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/themes/extremetech/js/site.js?p=sJfdJ9HyjFjZ&r=

That seems to have solved it. Thank you.