More likely you and others are encountering a common browser pirate as I have termed them - sites don't typically load from one site, but call a bunch of other web resources, and some come free but at a cost like heavily intrusive scripts for the site's users ... last time I ventured what many would view as a paranoid or misguided response was at a popular large forum which died back in 2017 [1] when they introduced a new feature - unfortunately one of the minor resources was script intensive and simply adding it to the deny list sorted it out. Understandably many who frequented the forum were way smarter than I and critical, but proof was in the pudding so to speak.
The easiest way to identify most of them, is a means to track every address and see where the loading process stalls at and if not essential, add into the deny / host file. This usually works but some sites will have a hissy fit when they don't get confirmation from some minor resource hasn't had a successful scrape and then refuses to load at all, or loads and blanks out the page. A few are pretty crafty like that - it doesn't solve everything and sometimes there is a price. I have banned one AI driven script a couple of years ago, that immediately afterwards it was like flicking a switch and feeling like a fifth of the net wasn't available any more - I can live with that though.
[1] tehparadox RIP 2017, of which in years afterwards many new versions popped up but were not viewed as valid as far as a couple of the old staff I knew from tehparadox
I've noticed it. I tried to watch Daredevil Born Again Season 2 on Netflix, and every 15 minutes, it paused the video. I have Fiber Optic Internet, a fast $2000 PC, and a Netflix account.
More likely you and others are encountering a common browser pirate as I have termed them - sites don't typically load from one site, but call a bunch of other web resources, and some come free but at a cost like heavily intrusive scripts for the site's users ... last time I ventured what many would view as a paranoid or misguided response was at a popular large forum which died back in 2017 [1] when they introduced a new feature - unfortunately one of the minor resources was script intensive and simply adding it to the deny list sorted it out. Understandably many who frequented the forum were way smarter than I and critical, but proof was in the pudding so to speak.
The easiest way to identify most of them, is a means to track every address and see where the loading process stalls at and if not essential, add into the deny / host file. This usually works but some sites will have a hissy fit when they don't get confirmation from some minor resource hasn't had a successful scrape and then refuses to load at all, or loads and blanks out the page. A few are pretty crafty like that - it doesn't solve everything and sometimes there is a price. I have banned one AI driven script a couple of years ago, that immediately afterwards it was like flicking a switch and feeling like a fifth of the net wasn't available any more - I can live with that though.
[1] tehparadox RIP 2017, of which in years afterwards many new versions popped up but were not viewed as valid as far as a couple of the old staff I knew from tehparadox
I've noticed it. I tried to watch Daredevil Born Again Season 2 on Netflix, and every 15 minutes, it paused the video. I have Fiber Optic Internet, a fast $2000 PC, and a Netflix account.