Everyone who has said go gold missed the point. I never said remove all the ads, just want the site to not be an unusable dog **** broken mess. As far as this performance criteria goes, this is one of the worst forum sites I use. I can deal with the little ad at the bottom of the screen or the regular sized ones in-between posts. It's the ads that mess with site functionality and cause lag that are the issue.
BTW, I'm working on getting gold.(have not logged into paypal in a few years)
Quagmire you need block those certain tracking cookies.
As for the suggestion of using ad blockers, that does not fix every problem. Also, I do watch many ads on youtube, especially the movie trailers and local ads. I wish not to remove revenue from ads, but the site should not be a POS for newcomers who may want to join.