I dunno I have done a lot of work to cleanse my home of all of that. I have a pi hole for DNS blocking, I use Firefox with AdBlock on both desktop and mobile, I choose to not use ad riddled apps like TikTok or Instagram (fuck Facebook). I have a VPN which I use for most everything. My home is pretty ad and corporate free. As it should be. Granted I’m pretty tech savvy so none of this was hard for me but I could see my mom having problems.
Had this happen recently with Rogue Trader, it was taking so long to load the assets and stuff I alt-tabbed then came back later and stared at the screen for a good long time before I saw the, “press any key to continue…”