Wowhead freezes chrome whenever their video ads load, wowhead seems to be the only website this happens on, why? Anyone else experience this with chrome and wowhead, it creates a memory leak, where if I do not ctrl-alt-delete and end task on chrome, it will climb in memory useage, one time it got up to 16GB of memory useage.
This does not happen in Firefox, I have 0 extensions running, but a bunch installed. What is going on?
i installed ublock and its stopped making wowhead crash/freeze and using up so much resources.
Thank you, I will check it out!
THANK YOU this worked for me
Me too. Goated.
I was wondering what was going on with it crashing all my tabs and it only ever being wowhead, do they even know about this issue happening right now?
How in this day and age are people not running ad blockers and js disabling.
they do its been going on for awhile now. they just want those sweet sweet advertiser dollars. i think its been an issue since at least the end of bfa?
Using chrome and not Microsoft edge in 2024 is a skill issue.
No different from old people using fandango instead of just cinemark or amc own website
They put your cpu usage to max.
It is not optimized.
Thought my PC was having mini seizures earlier today
Glad to know its not end user fault
the problem is you
no problem on edge with ublock installed.
not so long ago all the tech youtubers said chromium based browsers (including edge) wouldnt let you use adblock/ublock but it still works…
it seems like they like to scare people for no reason 
the day adblockers stop working i’ll go ahead and try the orange fox.
Had them for awhile, but they always stopped working so I just uninstalled them. I just use a playspeed ad skipper now for Youtube, as its really the only site I goto with annoying ads. Wowhead ads do not bug me too much. At least they did not use to.
Use Firefox browser with Ublock ad blocker…what I have been doing for years and never see any ads in wowhead at all or many other sites…
Fixed my issue as well!!
I just splurged I bought an annual premium membership for wow head for $9.
No crashing no freezing supports a resource i use a lot.
As soon as you visit wowhead, stop it from loading by clicking the x next to the address bar.
Also, ad blockers can contain malware themselves. Don’t trust the chrome shop. There is a fake version of Ublock on their(allegedly).
Ublock is open source. Bad actors can infect open source code.
I use Brave.
No YouTube ads either, even on my phone.
I had the same issue, but considering how much I use WoWhead, I opted to actually support them and got the $9 yearly subscription. Ads support their website allowing them to continue to post what they do. How else do you think they pay their staff? Either they pay via subscriptions or via ads. Blizzard doesn’t pay them. They might get a few sponsored deals and they have their little merchandise store, but they don’t work for free. Paying $9 for a year is nothing. I pay $110 for a Sam’s Club membership I might use two or three times a year. I’m paying $10 a month for an Adobe Photoshop subscription I hardly use. I spend $70 to put gas in my car every month. I easily spend $10-15 for lunches every day when I’m at work. Spending $9 is effectively a single day of lunch for me. That’s less than $1 a month for a website I frequently use.
While I do use ublock myself, I run into problems with some sites refusing to load if I use it. Youtube videos will sometimes not load at all for me. Watching a short ad isn’t the end of the world. People are so spoiled these days with streaming services with no ads. I’m part of the generation that used ads to quickly toss the dog out, run to the bathroom, or get food. Ads support the content creators. FYI, if you don’t watch at least the first 30 seconds of a video (typically the first ad when 2 are going to play), the content creator gets next to nothing from your view. Liking the video gives a pittance. The content creators already get so little after Youtube takes their cut. There’s a reason why some are branching off to other platforms or even making their own. Someone like MrBeast is a rarity and he has so many other avenues for money these days he doesn’t even need Youtube anymore.
Ads have their purpose although I do agree the ones that like to “brick” my browser are problematic. It’s also nigh impossible to report them or block a specific ad to stop it from happening again.