Hi Bill,
You have changed the thread subject a little but you have justified your action.
I wondered it it was just my machine having issues with the Brickboard.

I agree the Brickboard is getting hammered with advertising.
I go out to https://www.sudoku-solutions.com/ and it behaves nothing like the Brickboard.
No subscriptions and I see 80% of my screen while not scrolling!
I pretty much gave up on TV.
Having 65” screen of ads blaring at me and @ 100 watts of my power for five plus minutes got me to slink away.
Doing Sudoku or to post an answer is about all I can stand or sit through in the evenings before I nod out. 🫤😞

I’m pretty sure several posters are experiencing the same ugliness, as you call it, to open up the Brickboard site with it codes.
It is losing lots of traffic from those persons that will not spend the time over such Tomfoolery.
He may have had the car fixed for a couple weeks now?
Yes, with him giving us an update, so much later that is highly commendable!


I have noticed the proliferation of landing an advertisement in the middle of a post that causes us to scroll down to see BB content.
The Advertising seems to load up right before the rest of the thread as it refills on the sides and bottom too.
It must take buffertime to rotate the ads over to those it hasn’t shown yet.
That is, If the site doesn’t drop out before that.
When you change tabs, it dumps in another string in quite quickly with its content shifting the information content part of the page around.
That makes my eyes go 😵‍💫.

So much for nano or milli seconds as it’s hunting for ten more subjects of content after each click.
I make one request and they slide ten in before my requested data sees a glimmer.

Luckily when we are composing an answer to a post they stay at the bottom under my keyboard out of the middle of my screen.
Whoops, shouldn’t say that. 🤫
Selling data by the gig or unlimited it’s still the same overpriced game as they are getting paid from all kinds of other angles.

I hadn’t thought about Google pushing on other browsers to slow down their searches. That might even be a bit much for them to do.
I certainly know the service providers try to limit the amount of speed in processing as that affects their bottom line.
It’s why the subscription rates get a jostle in marketing despite prime time slow downs to less demanding customers.
I cannot count the number of times cable TV “upgraded” my set top box.
Today’s Internet modems now monitor demands continuously and adjust yours accordingly.
I use to use a “seasonal” service for cameras @ only one house at a time.
I come home occasionally in between the six months to take care of the property.
They drop it to around ten megabytes per second and still charge for one third as much as if I was getting nearer the “UP TO” 300 MB.
It slowly speeds up but it’s still capped if I use streaming.
I have decided it’s not worth the hassle and they only let you have it for up to exactly six months to the day. Switching over to fiber optic service providers averages it back to being less and things for me runs fine on their 100 MB.
So far there’s not as many customers on it yet. They will get as greedy soon.

Since we are at the end of the line seeing these kind of provocations, I would hope the search engines have a way to put a data log set of eyes on any of Googles behavior to prove that Google or browsers are predatory.
Everything is logged and being studied for the new age of BIG DATA.

It is wasting a lot of people’s time waiting while habits are collected.
We are paying dearly in money installments for the speeds that has been proven to be manipulated already.
Not connecting or running things at dial up speeds of twenty years ago or mobile tower speeds today is truly an unforgivable greed.

Maybe I should have started a new thread.🤔
Phil