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Pages take forever to load

I have been experiencing a strange problem lately. Whenever I open a movie page on IMDb, it takes an extraordinarily long time to load. However, what's even more strange is that when I open the same page and let it load while I switch to another tab, it loads normally and quickly. So every time I open a movie page, I have to switch to another tab for a few seconds before returning to it. Why is this happening?

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@Col_Needham​ Thank you for your replay. I did, nothing changed. I tried also on my Firefox which does not even have any plug-ins or ad blockers and the same problem is there too.

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I tried everything. I don't use VPN. I have a very fast internet. Every other sites I use regularly are working just fine, except imdb, and that I would say four days ago is when I first noticed this problem. And please remember I said when I go to another tab, the page loads fast and normal, so my internet is not the problem. I don't know what is making it slow to load if I stayed and didn't move to a different tab.

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Before posting here I did everything I can think of to make sure it isn't a local problem. I'll just wait, maybe it will fix itself with time.

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Hi again. I'm still trying to find out what causes this. When I click inspect on the page, there is a thing in "network" tab that takes 21 seconds to load. It's named "token" and this link is with it https://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token. What is it? and what should I do with it if it's what is causes the problem? Please see these images:

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Please ignore my last post, as I don't think it is the problem now. I think it is something loading in the background but I don't know how to identify it.

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What about antivirus software?

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I have discovered that imdb's JS attempts to access https://169.254.169.254 from time to time, which is AWS's EC2 metadata service for the local EC2 instance. This is kind of alarming. I don't happen to be browsing imdb on an EC2 instance, so it doesn't affect me, but it certainly raises my eyebrows. Can you confirm that this is nothing nefarious? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled imdb website tries to access AWS EC2 metadata service

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