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I've toyed with this on my tablet, and I've noticed that the application is incredibly slow when AdBlock Plus is enabled on my mobile device.

It just sits there at "Loading your user information...". There aren't any error dialogs as best as I can tell. If I navigate away to another window, sometimes another action is able to get through, but I'm reluctant to call that "consistent" behavior.

I can access http://api.stackexchange.com and http://mobile.stackexchange.com on my tablet just fine. To my understanding, there aren't any firewalls enabled on the tablet. There aren't any firewalls on my router that would restrict me from hitting those sites.

It seems like a bug - all of my other applications work just fine with ABP enabled.

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  • Are you sure your connection just isn't slow?
    – Cole Tobin
    Oct 9, 2013 at 3:36
  • 40Mb line. No, my connection isn't slow. And, the app works swimmingly without it enabled.
    – Makoto
    Oct 9, 2013 at 3:36
  • Just because your peak bandwidth is 40Mbps doesn't mean your connection is 40Mbps. With that logic, my measly 8Mbps Wi-Fi speed should be 150! And my gigabit Ethernet should be 1Gbps!
    – Cole Tobin
    Oct 9, 2013 at 3:39
  • Be that as it may, my connection is not the culprit here. Something else is going on.
    – Makoto
    Oct 9, 2013 at 3:40
  • What browser are you using?
    – doppelgreener
    Oct 9, 2013 at 4:04
  • I'm using the official Stack Exchange app. The website is perfectly responsive with ABP enabled.
    – Makoto
    Oct 9, 2013 at 4:05
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    It sounds like there's something else going on here. Do you have any firewalls installed? Can you reach api.stackexchange.com and mobile.stackexchange.com on your phone's browser?
    – Kasra Rahjerdi
    Oct 9, 2013 at 13:40
  • I can access both sites on my tablet just fine. To my understanding, there aren't any firewalls enabled on the tablet. There aren't any firewalls on my router that would restrict me from hitting those sites.
    – Makoto
    Oct 9, 2013 at 19:54
  • I'll ask the seemingly dumb question, have you disabled ABP and experienced this behavior?
    – Steven V
    Oct 9, 2013 at 20:18
  • No, it works just fine with ABP disabled.
    – Makoto
    Oct 9, 2013 at 22:01
  • I had the exact same problem and fixed by disabling: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196825/slow-load-times - This is also the only app I have that has issues with ad block.
    – MLM
    Oct 10, 2013 at 20:05
  • I know it's an old bug report, but what's your device model and Android version? Also, was your device rooted? It might have something to do with proxy
    – Meta Andrew T.
    Mar 30, 2016 at 6:48
  • I confirm having the same problem with AdAway to change my host file on a rooted Android device. It would be great to know what to white-list in order to avoid those issues. I've measured over 1 min 20s of loading time when using AdAway, while it's below 5s without.
    – Lery
    Jul 2, 2017 at 9:27

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