dmbaer
craigb
Let's put it this way: IE is the WORST browser currently out there. I'm guessing that's part of your issue.
Just did a test. Chrome required nearly 30 seconds to open this page. IE required nearly twice that. Did the IE test second and don't know if caching made it faster that it otherwise would have been (I suspect not).
Even the Chrome time is unacceptable IMO. If there were a visual indicator for embedded youtube content, I would elect to bypass most of those threads.
Here's how I would do that if I REALLY wanted to get rid of all the youtube embeds...
And this is a brute force method.
I've been using NoScript (in Firefox) for YEARS. It blocks EVERYTHING until I manually allow it (whitelisting specific domains).
I have "youtube dot com" and "googlevideo dot com" whitelisted in NoScript (that second one used to be something like "ytimg dot com" or some such but since Google bought youtube they've been tinkering with a bunch of crap).
Essentially if I disabled those scripts the embedded vids here on the forum would go away (at least they used to).
However since I decided youtube is the easiest route for me to get my bizarro/spontaneous music fixes these days (amongst other things... for example I've been watching classic boxing matches lately) I've completely left them whitelisted and just either a) avoid the offending thread and/or b) until it spawns a new page (no more vid embeds for every refresh/post).
This is kind of why you never see me in the "Now Playing" fred. It just loads too danged slow over here.
Now the downside to using NoScript (or some of the newer scriptblocking add ons... No Script is apparently considered "Legacy" now... lol) in this situation is if you totally blocked youtube/google video then you would have to allow it every time you wanted to watch a vid on YT... which would then reactivate the embedded vids here on the forum next time you refreshed until you reblocked youtube again.
So like I said that's brute force action but it is how I've been intertubing for years. It can get a little tedious from time to time always keeping track of all that crud on the sites I frequent BUT it's essentially full control over what an external server can load onto my system/screen (well not entirely but it clears away a HUGE amount of useless gack that makes the real content load much faster).
I do still think though that there is some transition from Flash to HTML5 video shtuff. I know it was a big to do back when I was learning me some HTML/CSS a few years ago.
So maybe us laggers should hunt about our browsers to see if there is an option to switch our defaults to HTML5 video when it is available (which I think is for everything on youtube now).
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