# Is rubiconproject causing my problem?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rubiconproject-causing-my-problem/635746
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 25, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rubiconproject-causing-my-problem/635746 "2012-09-25T04:15:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rubiconproject-causing-my-problem/635746/1 "2012-09-25T04:15:50Z")
I’m travelling and on my sister-in-law’s home network. The website (DrudgeReport) that has served as my home page for years won’t load…it says it’s waiting for [t-cdn.rubiconproject.com](http://t-cdn.rubiconproject.com) or something like that.
I’ve had the problem all week. In the middle of that time frame I was at a hotel a few miles away and had no problem at all. Now I’m back and having the same problem.
Any thoughts? It’s probably not a bid deal as I will be headed home in a couple days and am willing to bet the problem will go away.
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### Author:  [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rubiconproject-causing-my-problem/635746/2 "2012-09-25T04:19:29Z")
That’s an ad network. It’s more likely to be a symptom of your problem than the cause.
Clear cache and cookies in your browser. Then try setting the DNS servers on your computer to use [Google DNS](https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using).
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### Author:  [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rubiconproject-causing-my-problem/635746/3 "2012-09-25T13:03:54Z")
Rubiconproject uses javascript ads. Periodically they’ll have problems where instead of just displaying you’ll get windows message prompts “do you want to open ‘[tap.rubiconproject.com](http://tap.rubiconproject.com)’ or’ token.js’”. So if they have mangled ads again I can see how it could fail to load a page.