EvoM Staff,

Occasionally I like to browse EvoM while at work, where Facebook is explicitly blocked. It looks like the current site implementation now hits Facebook.com for every single page access. So, for every page I want to view I have to wait for the 30 second timeout to occur before the rest of the page will load. I can see Firefox sit on "Connecting to static.ak.facebook.com" for quite a long time before eventually loading the page.

Is there any way to disable this? I didn't see anything in the User CP.

 

mine always sticks waiting on the ad network to load.

 

Edit your localhosts:

127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 creative.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 creative.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 static.ak.facebook.com

That should do it. Or, don't surf at work. This is assuming you have admin access on your PC,if you don't, you can always ask your local IT staff for help, claim that EvoM is important for work purposes.

 

That should work!

 

That'll go over well.

I ended up using a Firefox add-in that can block sites by domain, which is working well. I can't edit the hosts file.

That said, is anyone else wondering why Facebook needs to know every page we visit on this site? Seems creepy to me.

 

We are looking to update our facebook connect this week, or very early next and it will address some of these issues