I went back to my ad blocker. I do get a pop up that asks me to drop my ad blocker that I have to close, and I do have to keeping clicking on that to close it as I move around the forum, but it does still allow me to access the site with the ad blocker on.
It's not great but it's better than no ad blocker at all, and my laptop doesn't have the long delays anymore. I've been on Max maybe 10 minutes so far, most of it here reading the now typing a reply. Right now my ad blocker is at 85 and still climbing as I type, make that 87.