Facebook Marketplace Messages are always in slow motion

[uc50ic4more]

I do FB, CL, Ebay and don't get paranoid over what any one of them does with my info. If people are so concerned over who is watching over their shoulders, they should throw away their computers and cell phones not to mention credit cards and bank accounts and live like it's the 19th century.

When we talk about an end-of-life piece of software being a danger, it is not about your privacy, necessarily. These companies legally and overtly collect data about you and your browsing habits and use it to market to you more effectively. They do not depend on outdated software nor security vulnerabilities for them to do this. It is in their end user license agreement.

When we talk about security issues, however, it goes much deeper than that. The concern at that point is that your machine will be used by a malicious party for distributed denial of service attacks, etc. Some malicious parties may use vulnerabilities in your machine to use your machine for the transference of contraband data. The only limit is their own imaginations. And security software will often not pick these things up because the malicious party may not have placed an executable file on your machine that would run as a program. Beyond that, a malicious party may be able to steal information about you from your machine that will have a much more palpable effect on your life than a marketing organization being able to market to you more acutely.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Half the cars people here drive are 2 years or more past EOL, yet they don't get bashed.

On software, EOL means end of life. That means that even if security vulnerabilities are found, no one is going to provision resources, human or otherwise, to issuing fixes. That is a far cry from not being able to find parts for an automobile, although parallels exist when people do drive unsafe automobiles around. It is a danger to themselves and to others.

 

[Hall]

People in this topic are trying to use analogies that are completely irrelevant. This is a good example of why you don't ask this type of question on a motor oil/etc oriented forum, lol !!!!!!!

Pot, meet kettle

The problem is in fact, the code on Facebook. Probably a script

You make a statement of "in fact" it's FB code, then follow it with "probably...."

FINALLY, a reply from someone that knows something about the issue instead of boilerplate bashing of W7 and their users.

Haha, no, he simply gave you an answer that you like. Let us know how you get your issue solved, please.

 

[Jethro_Bob]

@ atikovi

Here are some of risks nobody talks about.

Child Porn Investigations May Snare the Innocent | Prison Legal News

One of many examples.

"
Michael Fiola, a former employee of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, was one of those innocent defendants. In 2007, Fiola’s state-issued laptop was checked by his boss after someone noticed that he used four times more data than his co-workers. A technician discovered child pornography in a folder that stores images viewed online. Fiola was fired and charged with possession of child porn.

However, an examination by Fiola’s defense counsel found that the laptop had a severe virus infection and was programmed to visit as many as 40 child porn sites per minute. “The overall forensics of the laptop suggest that it had been compromised by a virus,” admitted Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney’s office.

The charge was eventually dropped, but not before Fiola and his wife had spent $250,000 fighting the case."

 

[uc50ic4more]

By that I mean, when I type a reply to a question, it takes 5 or more seconds for what I enter on the keyboard to actually show on the page. Same if I click on something. It can take 5 seconds for the requested page to show up. Very annoying at least. This doesn't happen on FB Messenger so it's not something with my computer that's on Windows 7 with Chrome. Is this something deliberate by Facebook? Like some kind of tracking system.

This thread got kinda sidetracked by all of the lectures you've been smothered with about using EOL software.

Facebook and others of this ilk have extraordinarily sophisticated method and mechanisms to track and learn you so your data better describes you, which makes that data more valuable to sell. All of the processing of that data is done by them apart from your interactions with their apps/ web sites and ought not affect performance. Exceptions might include people using ridiculously old software. You are using Chrome ***which I hope you have kept up-to-date*** and if you have, then it ought to be able to parse and interpret any code used on any platform today. If it is NOT kept up-to-date, I am afraid I have several more lectures queued up for you.

May I ask what version of Chrome you've got cooking on that machine?

A delay in a web page/ app page displaying to you after you've clicked on it is not that uncommon and can be caused by a million different things. I am a web developer and something I am constantly doing is optimizing my code and the servers that run that code. I am beginning to fear that your Chrome browser may be out of date and that its Javascript rendering engine might be stepping on its you-know-what as it tries to parse all of that script. But waiting a few seconds, especially on something a dynamic and database-driven as FB and its marketplace is probably not a red blinking light for us, here.

 

[Hall]

You are using Chrome ***which I hope you have kept up-to-date***

I'm not aware that you can block Chrome updates. Can you ? I never "update" mine, it does it on its own. I'm on v108.5359.94 and I see that v XXX.98 is the latest, so I'm 100% confident it would auto-update to that in the background.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

By that I mean, when I type a reply to a question, it takes 5 or more seconds for what I enter on the keyboard to actually show on the page. Same if I click on something. It can take 5 seconds for the requested page to show up. Very annoying at least. This doesn't happen on FB Messenger so it's not something with my computer that's on Windows 7 with Chrome. Is this something deliberate by Facebook? Like some kind of tracking system.

Easy fix: ditch FB. There are literally hundreds of ways to communicate that don’t involve the messaging host monitoring every single thing you do, even when you’re not on their page.

 

[uc50ic4more]

I'm not aware that you can block Chrome updates. Can you ? I never "update" mine, it does it on its own. I'm on v108.5359.94 and I see that v XXX.98 is the latest, so I'm 100% confident it would auto-update to that in the background.

I am a Linux guy and updates work a little differently. I observe a small icon in the upper right area of my wife's Chrome on Win10 that indicates an update is available; but I am not sure about to what degree it auto-updates without the user's explicit consent.

But there is no way in the world you'd be on 108.x if it weren't updating itself. New versions are out every few weeks.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Easy fix: ditch FB.

That's not a fix, that is simply avoiding the problem; or at least this manifestation of it. If it is a configuration, plugin or due to some vulnerability or lack of capability from EOL software, then this will rear its ugly head elsewhere at some other time.

 

[Hall]

monitoring every single thing you do

Better stay off the internet then

 

[eljefino]

I have a 6-month old PC running Ubuntu 22.04 and have noticed a lag in FB marketplace messages, but it's 1-2 seconds for me.

My horrible ISP (spectrum) is 2 up, 20 down.

It is an infuriating web surfing/ interface experience. Letters should type on the screen when the buttons are pressed. If they can't do that, the website has too much overhead, as demanded by non-engineers who want to add more "stuff." A website is supposed to exchange information, firstly, and be pretty, secondly.

 

[Dave9]

I'm not aware that you can block Chrome updates. Can you ? I never "update" mine, it does it on its own. I'm on v108.5359.94 and I see that v XXX.98 is the latest, so I'm 100% confident it would auto-update to that in the background.

You can block Chrome updates, but it involves disabling the service or other methods, not via a setting in Chrome, unless I missed it.

Just checked the Chrome version on my Win7 box. 108.0.5359.96 (official, 64bit). Unless Atikovi did something to disable updates, that'd be about the version it's running, the within-days-old current version. When a new version is released, it takes a few days to propigate to everyone so it doesn't overload their servers.

Yes it's a fact that it's Facebook code. Think about it, this only happening on certain websites? Merely typing TEXT? The "probably" variable I stated was due to whether the script is directly related to parsing or other text related function, or if there is another script on the page doing something else simultaneous to composing the message.

I'm not in front of that system so I can't get more specific, but a simple look at the scripts running on the page and selectively blocking them one at a time should uncover which is misbehaving, or if there is a script browser blocker, look at what's being blocked and try not blocking any on the page. More complete would be just launch the browser in safe mode, with no add-ons and try same page again.

No need to stay off the internet, to simply block the things you don't want happening (including text parsing), but at the same time if it is the site itself collecting even your posted text (which a 3rd party bot can do as well), there's nothing that can be done besides don't use the site, though 3rd party bots don't generally have access to private, 1 on 1 conversations unless the account password is compromised.