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Hi everyone,

Firefox started becoming extremly slow on certain websites, which I have bookmarked. It goes through periods of that. One it was because of a plug in, other times I would think it was a virus of my internet provider slowing it down. But it became really slow this week, and I started noticing what it says on bottom of left screen when it's loading.

I kept seeing "contacting googleadmanager.com, read.tags.tigcdn.com, contacting highfalutinhoney.com." There were other various ones that have started read.tags, but those were the main ones I thought it was a virus, and kept doing virus scans with Norton, Malwarebytes, and making sure all software and computer, was updated. The only thing that helped was deleting profile in the profile folder on Mozilla and deleting it on my computer, and redoing all settings, with nothing imported.

It hasn't been slow in awhile. The only thing I can think of is I went on google maps, and saved a bookmark of a place on Firefox, and the offending website that was really slow was also bookmarked. Is it possible because I added a google bookmark, it installed on my brower tracking cookies? I set to have the settings to strict for my browser, never remember history, and use duckduckgo for search, except when I went on google maps this week on a private tab and then bookmarked a page from google.

If anyone knows how this happens, I would really appreciate it :} I don't know much about the technical stuff for computers. I'm just a basic user.

Thank you