Disallow animated avatars and signatures

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HawkMan

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I believe most browsers also allow users to apply custom stylesheets to all pages, so extensions are not necessary. The following snippet works in IE11 on Windows 8, where ##### is the number of the member's avatar image. Mine would be 17075, I think. I suppose it would not be impossible to tweak it so that you block all avatars that are GIFs, but it can't, I think, discriminate between animated or not.

img[src*="av-#####"] {
 visibility: hidden !important;
}

 

The stylesheets is what causes massive memory usage

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ad blockers, how to make your browser used 4+ times as much memory in the effort in the belief you're trying to save resources. 

actually no, using a simple regex text replacement, you can remove user signature easily.

 

example using proxomitron:

 

URL = "www.neowin.net/forum/topic/*"
Match = "<div class="signature"*</div>"
Replace = ""
Proficient

pqt

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I don't want to remove signatures or avatars, I want annoying animated ones gone. 

 

I use ad-block for avatars that are annoying. I've had Hum's avatar blocked since before I registered an account. I don't activate the general adblock for Neowin but I do specify the avatars that become an annoyance. We can't disallow something for thousands of users just because we aren't happy with the quality.

 

We are in an age of technology where we can customize and modify anything to our personal standards. This is a prime example of where such technological capabilities could be utilized. We just need to be thaumaturgic with our resources sometimes.

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Sorry but if you don't like my blinking budman logo you can just FO!! ;)

Why is this topic of discussion? Here is what I do, I dislike signatures - they are turned off, simple as that. Did I go crying that should be banned for everyone? If I didn't like avatars - turn them off.. Block the ones you don't like with a proxy or software - if your worried about the resources adblocker or style sheets are using. Buy a faster freaking machine or more ram ;)

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Didn't even notice NW allowed them till this topic - Shows how much they must have been annoying me lol.

 

As others have said I would be surprised if 99% of Neowin didn't have adblock installed, just block images you don't like. 

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and again, ad blocks cause browsers to have ridiculous memory usage because of their stylesheets. 

 

If you use Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

 

I refuse to believe with whatever browser you are using you aren't using some sort of blocking :/ Even software wise (Admuncher?)

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+BudMan MVC

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"and again, ad blocks cause browsers to have ridiculous memory usage because of their stylesheets. "

What are you on some box with 640K of ram or something?? What does it matter if my browser uses 500MB or 1GB when there is 12GB in the system?

So what do you think is a ridiculous amount of memory?

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So I did a little test - simple enough I restarted FF with adblocker running, went to few of my fav sites

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I then disabled adblock, and restarted FF and went to those same sites

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Maybe 30MB difference -- clearly I need to turn that off, I mean 30 whole MB.. WTF???? ;)

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HawkMan

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"and again, ad blocks cause browsers to have ridiculous memory usage because of their stylesheets. "

What are you on some box with 640K of ram or something?? What does it matter if my browser uses 500MB or 1GB when there is 12GB in the system?

So what do you think is a ridiculous amount of memory?

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So I did a little test - simple enough I restarted FF with adblocker running, went to few of my fav sites

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I then disabled adblock, and restarted FF and went to those same sites

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Maybe 30MB difference -- clearly I need to turn that off, I mean 30 whole MB.. WTF???? ;)

 

Ad blocks cause browsers to chomp up 6+ gigs of memory, in any browser due to the way their stylesheets work.

 

I would have used a software solution, but the one I tried had a thirty day trial and caused issues with some pages where it delayed loading of pictures long enough for the site scripts to not show the pictures at all unless you repeatedly refreshed a few times.  and Im not really going to pay for an ad blocker. 

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Haggis Veteran

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I have had adblock for ages now and have never seen it eat even over 1gig

 

if your browser is using 6gig RAM maybe something else needs looked at

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+BudMan MVC

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"Ad blocks cause browsers to chomp up 6+ gigs of memory, in any browser due to the way their stylesheets work. "

Yeah clearly that is everyone use case :rolleyes: -- see my example.. That 30MB it used vs the 6GB your talking about - close enough ;)

I agree if your seeing 6 GB in browser usage you have something WRONG!!! I have left my browser running for days on end and never got anywhere close to 2GB, with lots and lots of tabs open..

If you are opening so many sites in tabs that it uses up 6GB, I wouldn't be blaming it on the style sheets that is for damn sure.. Why don't you just show us this usage via adblocker and your tabs and no adblocker and your tabs

Here I opened up ever single tab I could think of - 60 plus tabs!!

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Adblocker enabled!! Got right around 1GB.. How much do you think it would be with ad blocker off??

Now I turned OFF adblocker and restarted firefox - it reopens all 60 some tabs..

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OMG --- look at that I right around 1 GB - what maybe 30MB difference?? Yeah clearly your nuts to run an adblocker if your worried about saving resources ;) How many possible tabs could you be having open that your using 6GB?? Clearly that has to be productive.. If you have more open than what shows up on the top of your screen you should prob rethink what your doing.

And look at that cpu usage with all those freaking ads reloading all the time ;) Clearly the machine is more responsive with adblock on vs off

edit: What the hell is network doing there with adblockers OFF.. Great now prob got some driveby!! ;)

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Seahorsepip Veteran

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Topic seems to be going a bit oftopic, anyway: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gif-jam-animation-stopper/bclnijbemellankmoaafepibbboobalb?hl=en

This is one of the hundreds of gif blockers available for chrome firefox etc. If you really can't stand gif's consider using this :p

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I have no problem with adblock .... my browser does not slow me down with adblock on. I also have very long list of the hosts file. My computer runs fast enough. Not a problem.

 

If you have that slowdown problem... like Budman said, get more ram or new computer. Remember, not all of the computers are same...  Some runs smoothly and fast, while others run slow.. Which some features do not work on some of the computers...  such as errors, BSOD, etc.

 

 

Stop complaining or whining...  if you don't like any of the animated gifs, block them with adblock image block feature, stylish, or ignore user. 

 

That simple.

 

Runs barely same RAM amount, no matter if the adblock is on or not.

 

You have been whining over the little stupid thing.

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HawkMan

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"Ad blocks cause browsers to chomp up 6+ gigs of memory, in any browser due to the way their stylesheets work. "

Yeah clearly that is everyone use case :rolleyes: -- see my example.. That 30MB it used vs the 6GB your talking about - close enough ;)

I agree if your seeing 6 GB in browser usage you have something WRONG!!! I have left my browser running for days on end and never got anywhere close to 2GB, with lots and lots of tabs open..

If you are opening so many sites in tabs that it uses up 6GB, I wouldn't be blaming it on the style sheets that is for damn sure.. Why don't you just show us this usage via adblocker and your tabs and no adblocker and your tabs

Here I opened up ever single tab I could think of - 60 plus tabs!!

attachicon.gif60plustabs.png

Adblocker enabled!! Got right around 1GB.. How much do you think it would be with ad blocker off??

Now I turned OFF adblocker and restarted firefox - it reopens all 60 some tabs..

attachicon.gif60plustabsadblockOFF1.png

OMG --- look at that I right around 1 GB - what maybe 30MB difference?? Yeah clearly your nuts to run an adblocker if your worried about saving resources ;) How many possible tabs could you be having open that your using 6GB?? Clearly that has to be productive.. If you have more open than what shows up on the top of your screen you should prob rethink what your doing.

And look at that cpu usage with all those freaking ads reloading all the time ;) Clearly the machine is more responsive with adblock on vs off

edit: What the hell is network doing there with adblockers OFF.. Great now prob got some driveby!! ;)

 

 

Maybe if you didn't act like you're so much better in your replied all the time.

 

 

Fact is ad blockers work by applying a giant stylesheet to every page you load, this causes webpages to use a lot more memory than they normally would, usually several times as much as just the webpage alone unless it's a very heavy webpage. 

 

But seeing as you're unable to accept any fault in your own hypothesises. 

 

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This is a fairly recent opening of chrome with a recently restarted machine no other addons running constantly. 

 

This is how ad block works, unless you use ad muncher or similar.

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dead.cell

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I come to this site for its content, not to look at avatars. I personally have no problem with them, it sets people apart and helps put names to faces (avatars).

 

If Neowin wants to implement a feature to turn off avatars or animations, I have no problem. The more options the better I guess.

As far as I can tell, it's an odd limitation of IPB.

 

I believe there are ways to add this feature through an addon (forum backend side), but I don't know if it'd be worth the effort, given the problems it might create with the customization of the website. (e.g. how it looks on the news comments and other areas)

 

Wish I had more I could tell ya. I like blocking avatars too when I'm at work. Browser scripts/extensions seem to be about it.

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