Anyone else having slower load times since Verizon added advertisements?

That's because it takes time for all those flash ads to load. A good pop-up blocker should help!

Download and install the latest Firefox browser:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Also install "adblock plus":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186...

Result: no more annoying ads! And pages are loading much quicker too...:-)

http://www.admuncher.com/ - this adblocker for the IE (and other browsers) gets highly recommended in several forums.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26171/safari-... - for Safari Mac

http://opindian.com/blog/2009/02/25/adblock-soluti... - another solution for Safari 4 Win and Mac.

I personally have the Firefox installed and don't even see anymore ads on the YA pages...:-)

i'm having a matching situation. i'm in significant PA and characteristic verizon DSL. each thing else is relatively speedy (consisting of different video web content), yet Youtube movies take continuously. i've got completed a tracert and site visitors latency is approximately as envisioned. i've got ran a packet catch collectively as attempting to pass a video and countless retransmission requests are being made. i'm thinking that's the two that Verizon is the two doing a splash style of filtering to circumvent bandwidth themes, or maybe a Youtube server is being overwhelmed.