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-- Nathan ________________________________ From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:10 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Good Weather App/site I prefer to just not go to websites that have that obnoxious of ads... On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Nathan Anderson <nath...@fsr.com<mailto:nath...@fsr.com>> wrote: ?I used to be the same way, but over the last couple of years, most web sites have just gone beyond the pale. It is ridiculous how much CPU-time is being consumed by some open tabs, simply on account of the ads. If I want my laptop battery NOT to last, then I don't use ad blockers. https://marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics? -- Nathan ________________________________ From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>> on behalf of Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net<mailto:af...@ics-il.net>> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:59 PM To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Good Weather App/site I'm morally opposed to most ad blockers. Any other business that advertises should be as well. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> Midwest Internet Exchange<http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ________________________________ From: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> To: af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 3:33:08 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Good Weather App/site people still browse without ublock origin? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:25 PM, George Skorup <george.sko...@cbcast.com<mailto:george.sko...@cbcast.com>> wrote: I haven't noticed too many problems with the Android app. Once you start the radar loop, it does take a few seconds to buffer some frames. OTOH, the website is a piece of shit. Ads galore. Those alone are half the loading time. Waiting on Google Analytics this, DoubleClick, that. It reminds me of the ePMP GUI before they made it not need 16 CPU cores and 128GB of RAM anymore. On 10/26/2017 10:21 AM, Nate Burke wrote: I've used Wunderground for years, but their recent updates have basically broken things. The Droid App no longer correctly displays the radar. It sometimes won't update, or only displays a few frames of animation, or only loads part of the radar overlay. On a PC, their site now takes 10-20 seconds to load, and at least for me, the Wundermap keeps sending me to the radar in LA, and uses the CPU Resources of a small computing cluster. And even then still doesn't load correctly. What else is out there that gives good Radar loop and 7-10 day local forecast. I don't care about other things like 'click here to see the worlds 7 worst storms that have trapped kittens who are rescued by lemurs' like weather.com<http://weather.com/> seems to think is the most important reason you go to their site.
