I have a very fast internet connection, and a fairly fast computer. I have found the same slowness and obtrusive ads on the other sites. I’m getting to the point, I don’t really want to go to the other sites when they are linked.
“FWIW, I’ve tried the last few months — and I don’t have a slow connection — to get on The Blaze, Breitbart, and others. Their ads have been so many, so intrusive, and so overwhelming that my relatively new computer, and relatively fast internet simply cannot get access with near the amount of time that keeps me interested. It has been SO BAD that I’ve simply left those sites and ignored those articles that I had wanted to read.
That is NOT the Free Republic experience. It is fast, smooth, and easily navigated. Why? Because donors fund it and not corporations.”
We are of kindred minds on this subject. I don’t have a bad, outdated, or backwoods system, but some sites we get linked to are so FULL of ads, pop-ups, auto videos, etc., that they just lock my system in super slow mode. I used to be patient. Now I just close them out and go back to good ole Free Republic where I can discuss conservatism unhindered by intrusions.