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Old 06-01-2008
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Originally Posted by justmike View Post
Using Safari (on a Mac) I can see the network timeline for a page. Using that I found that it was (IIRC), a javascript loaded from w w w.youchoose.net, I think for the new little petition window at the bottom.

Anyway, I got rid of it by adding an entry to /etc/hosts (on Windows I think it's at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\) mapping w w w.youchoose.net to 127.0.0.1, so it just can't load. Complete page load times went from about 1 minute back to ~2 seconds.

--jmike

p.s. Remove space from "w w w" above. I'm still too noob to be allowed to post anything that looks like URL.
Can't you just hack the site and take it out for us?
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