Collapsing black stripe on the top - any chance to fix it? :)

Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Looks like you have some type of script/cookie and/or ad blocker software enabled or within your browser settings.

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Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Looks like you have some type of script/cookie and/or ad blocker software enabled or within your browser settings.

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I don't have any ad blockers; and I have the same issue on my phone with mobile version of the site. Sometimes (rarely) an ad is shown on the top in which case it doesn't collapse, but next time I refresh it or navigate to another sub-forum, it's blank again and collapses.

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Quarkcharmed said:

UPD: also just checked it on a different PC (also without any ad blockers), connected through a vpn tunnel from a different city

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Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Looks like you have some type of script/cookie and/or ad blocker software enabled or within your browser settings.

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I don't have any ad blockers; and I have the same issue on my phone with mobile version of the site. Sometimes (rarely) an ad is shown on the top in which case it doesn't collapse, but next time I refresh it or navigate to another sub-forum, it's blank again and collapses.

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Never seen this on my many setups...but have seen it with script limiting settings and ad blockers,

Mako2011 said:

UPD: also just checked it on a different PC (also without any ad blockers), connected through a vpn tunnel from a different city

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May then be an issue with your IPS

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Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Looks like you have some type of script/cookie and/or ad blocker software enabled or within your browser settings.

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I don't have any ad blockers; and I have the same issue on my phone with mobile version of the site. Sometimes (rarely) an ad is shown on the top in which case it doesn't collapse, but next time I refresh it or navigate to another sub-forum, it's blank again and collapses.

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Never seen this on my many setups...but have seen it with script limiting settings and ad blockers,

Quarkcharmed said:

UPD: also just checked it on a different PC (also without any ad blockers), connected through a vpn tunnel from a different city

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May then be an issue with your IPS

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Those are two different PCs and two different broadband providers; it's also the same on my phone on 4G network via a third mobile provider. Neither of them has any ad blockers installed. Is it maybe country-specific (Australia).

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Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Quarkcharmed said:

Is it just me who finds it very annoying? When you refresh/load the page, there's this space on the top, presumably for advertisement. I don't mind ads, but most of the time it's just blank space and it collapses in a while - sometimes very quick, sometimes in a second or two, and it's hugely annoying as it disrupts navigation through the menus and links on the top of the site.

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Just for the heck of it, I fired up my VPN, used a server in Australia, loaded DPR in a freshly installed Chrome, and saw what I think to be what you described.

This is the page immediately after loading:



And this is about a second later:



There have been reports in the past about page jumping that may have been similar to what you see, like this one:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64472260

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Quarkcharmed said:

That's it - and I've been having it for about a year or so, just yesterday decided to complain... I can speculate there's an ad broker or something and it doesn't have enough ads for Australia

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Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

That's it - and I've been having it for about a year or so, just yesterday decided to complain... I can speculate there's an ad broker or something and it doesn't have enough ads for Australia

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Now I'm also getting page jumping. What did you do to me That said, goes away when I use a faster ISP. Strange it just started. Get it at other sites as well. Updated Firefox just a few hours ago...that might be part of it

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Quarkcharmed said:

Thanks! - hopefully it gets resolved eventually.

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Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Thanks! - hopefully it gets resolved eventually.

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Did a little more research. There is an Amazon-adsystem.com script associated with that space. If your browser, or ad ware, or ISP blocks that script then you get the page jumping described. I think it's unlikely DPR can affect the issue. I simply went into my browser/script settings and allowed the script to run (was being blocked) and the issue was gone

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Mako2011 said:

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<div id="ape_adSlot_center_placement" class="ad center text/x-dacx-safeframe collapsed"

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Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Thanks! - hopefully it gets resolved eventually.

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Did a little more research. There is an Amazon-adsystem.com script associated with that space. If your browser, or ad ware, or ISP blocks that script then you get the page jumping described. I think it's unlikely DPR can affect the issue. I simply went into my browser/script settings and allowed the script to run (was being blocked) and the issue was gone

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I think it's the same symptom but different cause. I have this issue intermittently , in some cases it does show an ad after refresh (but most of the time it collapses).

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Quarkcharmed said:

None of my browsers block Javascript, Chrome doesn't block ads for this site. Also tried it in Firefox - same issue.

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Quarkcharmed said:

Note the 'collapsed' attribute. I'm not 100% sure but it looks like it comes from the server this way. Unfortunately my web-fu doesn't go as far as investigating this issue further on my side.

The issue reproduces in different browsers and different platforms (PC, mobile), three different devices with three different ISPs.

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Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Mako2011 said:

Quarkcharmed said:

Thanks! - hopefully it gets resolved eventually.

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Did a little more research. There is an Amazon-adsystem.com script associated with that space. If your browser, or ad ware, or ISP blocks that script then you get the page jumping described. I think it's unlikely DPR can affect the issue. I simply went into my browser/script settings and allowed the script to run (was being blocked) and the issue was gone

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I think it's the same symptom but different cause. I have this issue intermittently , in some cases it does show an ad after refresh (but most of the time it collapses).

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That ad space isn't always taken up by a Amazon-adsystem.com ad

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Mako2011 said:

Mako2011 said:

None of my browsers block Javascript, Chrome doesn't block ads for this site. Also tried it in Firefox - same issue.

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Many actually do. Firefox, for example, did an update a while back where some scripts are actively blocked and pretty tricky to unblock. And with every update...it seems to change. As I noted, my current version of Firefox was blocking the script.

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Mako2011 said:

I also know that the page jumping issue has been specifically addressed with browser updates in the past. How fast is your connection? On slower connections Page Jumping is more common. Do you have an anti-virus program? Mine can affect web scripts as well

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Mako2011 said:

Mako2011 said:

Note the 'collapsed' attribute. I'm not 100% sure but it looks like it comes from the server this way. Unfortunately my web-fu doesn't go as far as investigating this issue further on my side.

The issue reproduces in different browsers and different platforms (PC, mobile), three different devices with three different ISPs.

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A while back there was a similar post (can't find it now) and the issue was related to web security certificates slow to update or... something like that...that affected the ad space. Maybe the staff can way in after checking. May take a while

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Quarkcharmed said:

Could be related to the time delay. As Patco noted above, the issue manifested after switching to Australian VPN.

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Quarkcharmed said:

When it shows an ad, it's always from Amazon, so maybe it's the opposite - an issue with non-Amazon ads.

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Quarkcharmed said:

I don't have antiviruses at all (nor PC neither mobile) apart from the standard ones provided by Win10.

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Quarkcharmed said:

Quarkcharmed said:

A while back there was a similar post (can't find it now) and the issue was related to web security certificates slow to update or... something like that...that affected the ad space. Maybe the staff can way in after checking. May take a while

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Could be related to the time delay. As Patco noted above, the issue manifested after switching to Australian VPN.

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