For a month, at least, when I am looking at the blogs I follow, the entire page loads, except for images and animated gifs, which take a VERY long time – like dial-up long – to load.
I’m using Firefox with XKit Rewritten, and Tumblr Savior. I’ve looked in them to see if I have redundant settings or anything, and haven’t seen anything that looks suspicious. I am at a loss, and if I’m being totally honest, there’s at least a 50% chance this is a “Did you turn it off an back on again?” situation.
To be clear, I did try that.
Is anyone else experiencing this, or is it a me problem?
It’s just you
I also thought it was only me
Okay so an update on this situation.
I run ProtonVPN on all my machines at home, because my ISP can fuck off with snooping on my traffic.
ProtonVPN is rad, but on Linux it doesn’t support split tunneling, which means I have to turn it off when I want to print from my primary desktop, move files across my local network, stuff like that.
I had it off a little bit ago so I could print some things, and I noticed that Tumblr loads as expected, without any weird image placeholders or slowdowns. I turned it back on, and the slow loading came back.
So I don’t know why using a VPN would slow down Tumblr, but that appears to be the most likely cause of my issues.
Interesting. I also have this slowness on my phone, where I run AdGuard Pro’s VPN… (I also pay for Tumblr premium, so shouldn’t be getting ads on Tumblr in the first place [of course everything is still going through the VPN, because AdGuard doesn’t know that]).
David: I think the one picture I have of us up on the wall is the one where I had the dress on. Gillian: I love that picture. David: Yeah. Gillian: And I’m holding you up. David: Exactly. Gillian: Yeah. I love that picture. (Fail Better podcast, 11/12/2024)
???? David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson photographed by Mark Seliger, 1997
