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Zk website loads really slowly in china

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Edit: i mean website lol

and when i say slowly, I mean 2-4 minutes per page.(maybe even more)
Issue seems to be that it tries to connect to twitter,google,etc.
and it waits until connection times out (or something)
This renders using the website practically unusable unless you use a VPN(really annoying when you're trying to play and access the site at the same time)

a solution might be to tell the website not to load the blocked websites if the player's ip is in china
or make like a chinese version of the site (cn.zero-k.info)
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9 years ago
I would say it is more a problem with china than with zk...
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9 years ago
I think it is better to leave the politics out of it (whom is having a problem).

USrankdotT: maybe use a tracker blocker like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/donottrackplus/ ? Page looks better anyhow with it "on" (hides ads and social media stuff)

But to get more Chinese players some other technical solutions should be found ...
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9 years ago
Can you identify which things exactly cause slow loading or are blocked?
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Zk gets stuck on the following(dont think i missed any):
platform.twitter.com
google.com
apis.google.com
twitter.com
facebook.com

using the addon NLrankmalric suggested does remove the google connections, so it speeds the loading time a bit, but it doesnt seem to block twitter or facebook
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Skasi
9 years ago
Have you tried using NoScript? Perhaps just keeping javascript disabled for these platforms stops them from loading. I'd also suggest doing that even if you didn't have any problems.
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I recommend Ghostery: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ghostery/

Not sure if it's available for anything else than firefox. It's like an adblock but even more encompassing (including things like Google Analytics, social media buttons (which will also track you just by being there) and other stuff that you don't even know about). The only benefit they draw from you using it is the data about what you would've seen, IF you opt into that.

I can't remember the last time I was annoyed by any third-party content on a site since I installed it. Well, see for yourself.
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9 years ago
Is there English version of Ghostery?
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Skasi
@Rafal[ZK], I used my hyp3r-1337 computer skillz0rz and totally modified the "de" in the url posted to "en" by completely rewriting the two letters from scratch using my super advanced illegal h4xxor keyboard and look what I got!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
Enjoy!
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9 years ago
Noscript did the trick :D
Skasi is the tru haxor
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@Rafal[ZK] is the tru comput0r n00b, who didn't even look at the url
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9 years ago
quote:
ZK website loads really slowly in china


The awesomely powerful great firewall of china has a hand in this
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9 years ago
Oh lord, when I was in China, it took me 5 minutes to load any page of zero k.

I also found out that China blocks google.com, but not images.google.com?
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9 years ago
You'd expect ZK to be promoted in China with all the recent communism changes.
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9 years ago
China would approve of private caretaker farms for its higher elo citizens.
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Back when DErankAdminmojjj visited China: http://pastebin.com/rsuxH3hy

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