AdBlocker Plus works well. And an easy alternative is to just use the Brave browser. It's basically a cleaner and faster shell over Chrome that handles tracking and ad blocking. It's free, fast, and highly recommended. We use it for a program I volunteer at that provides computers for underserved kids, etc. - it was recommended by multiple organizations and it has worked well. Given all that - I'm using Brave and haven't seen any such delays (but it's definitely doing some tracking and ad blocking and gives you counts per page).
This website has become S-L-O-W
I don't know where else to post this problem (where the heck are the moderators hiding anyway?) but this website has become extremely slow and balky. When I click on a discussion topic, it takes takes long enough for the posts to appear to prompt my Windows (the latest iteration) for it to give me a dialogue box that says it ain't their problem. None of the other discussion groups I frequent does this. Does anybody else have this problem? Can anybody else tell me how to get hold of the folks who might be able to help?