This is seriously your response? There hasn't been any change in the amount of ads. I posted that information mostly so folks bitching about the ads were aware of their options. You have a choice, pay $1 a month and not see any ads, or continue to use the site for free and deal with them.
Which is fine, which is what we were all fine with prior to the update which seems to go around apps we have all added to make this site a better experience.
Not only has the update made this site sluggish to peruse, it's also found some way to circumvent an ad blocker, which we all are allowed to use much to the people that own this site's chagrin for lining their pockets, which in the end, is their right, just as it is ours when we use that ad blocker. But that's not even the point, if the ads are what makes this site so amazingly slow, that it some how helps push the narrative of "well if you want it smoother, buy our subscription" then yeah, that is shady crap. I'm sorry that angers you, I am not saying anything that isn't within the rules.
The site is slow for the vast majority of users, on various browsers. It's not just a small problem for a few, its a wide spread one. Ruining the experience for people to talk hockey or whatever else they come here for, you know, a place built on the community of said people.
