Google Cloud move

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vs-Admin

Discussion Starter · May 1, 2018

Hello all,

We are reaching out to let our communities know that we will be moving the site off of our current hosting platform to Google Cloud this week.

If you notice any issues, please report them in the Community to Team section and we will get them addressed ASAP.

Thanks in advance,

Your Community Management Team

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gus3049

· #61 · Jun 30, 2018 (Edited by Moderator)

Do you have NoScript installed? It can block that subdomain, so it won't have any influence over your page loading times any more. - Stoooo

No I don't. I have an Ad Blocker and Ghostery installed and I'm not about to delete them.

stoooo

· #62 · Jun 30, 2018

I wasn't suggesting deleting anything. I have uBlock Origin (ad blocker) *and* NoScript. They serve different functions, and make a powerful combo. Ghostery is new on me. I'll have to look into it and see what it does.

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gus3049

· #63 · Jun 30, 2018

I probably didn't phrase that well!!

I'll have a look at NoScript. Ghostery is another ad blocker. Two may be over the top

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gus3049

· #64 · Jun 30, 2018

NoScript looks very useful and it appears to have stopped the delay, thanks

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stoooo

· #65 · Jul 1, 2018

That's good to hear. NoScript takes a lot of tweaking to begin with, as you have to allow lots of the sites you visit regularly, and it isn't always obvious which scripts need to be allowed for certain elements on any given page. I always start by only granting Temporary Trust until I'm sure I want to fully trust an external site. It irritates me how many 'cdn' sites need to be allowed. What's wrong with just delivering content from the primary domain? Sigh.

I did a little research on Ghostery. It seems like it may be doing an AdBlock Plus and selling space on its whitelist. It sounds like it is still a handy privacy plugin (helps stop cookie tracking and the like), but is less effective at blocking certain ads, so having an additional ad blocking plugin is still a good plan.

gus3049

· #66 · Jul 2, 2018

Yet another small thing that doesn't affect the usability but is strange. Some avatars don't now show on the latest posts screen whilst others are fine.

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gus3049

· #67 · Jul 2, 2018 (Edited by Moderator)

This is now becoming annoying. How many more things do I have to add to NoScript? The View New Content pages took 35 seconds to load with this address in the bottom left hand corner.

It's reached the stage where I load the page and then go elsewhere to avoid staring at a blank page before coming back to read..

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gus3049

· #68 · Jul 2, 2018

It seems this all may be a problem with Firefox in particular. I've just swapped to Vivaldi and so far, all seems fine!

stoooo

· #69 · Jul 2, 2018

That is the one downside to NoScript. Until you whitelist the necessary sites for the scripts that build the parts of a page you want to see, things just won't work right. The following is what I see in NoScript when I come to SF:

Rectangle Font Screenshot Software Electronic device

I don't get ads or that irritating pop-up about GDPR (I see it on the rare occasion I visit the site on my Androind tablet, which doesn't have NoScript installed). And the pages load quickly enough for me to be happy with it. How many sources does your NoScript show?

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gus3049

· #70 · Jul 2, 2018

Thanks but I've now just swapped to Vivaldi as it make life a bit simpler.

Dopamine

· #71 · Jul 2, 2018

I tried NoScript but quickly uninstalled it. It broke too many pages, including eBay, and I don't know enough about what should or shouldn't be trusted to enable me to configure NoScript with any degree of confidence. Quite possibly I'd end up telling it to trust sites that shouldn't be trusted.

Someone on SF recommended Disconnect recently as a means of stopping tracking. I've been using it successfully ever since. I haven't had to configure anything, it hasn't prevented any pages from working and its counter tells me that it's stopping stuff. That's about as simple and efficient as I need.

stoooo

· #72 · Jul 2, 2018

gus3049 said:
Thanks but I've now just swapped to Vivaldi as it make life a bit simpler.

No worries. One of the main problems with computers is that there are so many different ways to achieve the same (or same-ish) thing. I rely on NoScript to block scripts from unknown sites by default. As security research is a part of what I do, there's always the risk of wandering onto a website that has been compromised in some way. It's a problem that crops up in the strangest of places. Earlier in the year, the Information Commisioner's Office website was cryptojacking everyone that vistied their site. Kind of ironic for the organisation in charge of enforcing things like GDPR. They used a 3rd party plug-in to help visually impaired users. *That* plug-in had been hacked, and the ICO were oblivious to that, and just kept feeding the script to users, and making their computers mine cryptocurrencies for the hackers. No real harm done other than using up a few extra compute cycles and a bit of embarrassment. But the malware could have been quite destructive. It all depends on the motivation of the attacker. Anyway, I shall step off my soapbox, as we all seem to be finding solutions that work acceptably well.

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gus3049

· #73 · Jul 24, 2018

Why am I suddenly getting this crap come up every time I join the site?

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Wankel Ickx

· #74 · Jul 24, 2018 (Edited by Moderator)

I'll take a punt... because you've not clicked on the 'No' just yet? Maybe?

Ade

· #75 · Jul 24, 2018

Hi

Same here, started again today on tablet,never disappeared on mobile .....tedious.....

gus3049

· #76 · Jul 24, 2018

Wankel Ickx said:
I'll take a punt... because you've not clicked on the 'No' just yet? Maybe?

Sadly not. If you click NO which was my automatic response, it just goes round and round until you click YES.

Hopefully, my ad blocker and cookie monster will foil them but I pay to avoid this sort of rubbish and yes, I know it happens before I log in but that no longer happens automatically either.

CMOTD

· #77 · Jul 24, 2018

After you click 'No' you need to click on 'I agree'.

gus3049

· #78 · Jul 24, 2018

CMOTD said:
After you click 'No' you need to click on 'I agree'.

What happens if I don't want to?

CMOTD

· #79 · Jul 24, 2018

It will never go away. Please read the full discussion on this. LINK

gus3049

· #80 · Jul 24, 2018

Ah, I hadn't seen that.

Sorry to raise the unnecessary.

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