IPad safari page load hang

Question

ok folks.  Long time listener, first time caller.  I've been using the forums for years to research and occasionally even solve ( ;-) ) problems with various and sundry things apple.  My turn.
I have an iPad mini I got as a birthday present in 2013 (a "mini-pad" as my wife refers to it, late 2012, 16GB, wi-fi only).  I love it, got no major problems with it.  However...
Throughout the mini-pad's life, using iOS 6, 7, and now 8, I have had the problem where web pages in Safari would hang while loading.  Not crash.  Just.  Stop.  It doesn't matter if I type in the URL or select it from a bookmark.  It doesn't matter if I'm running in regular or private mpode.  It doesn't matter if I'm on my wi-fi or somebody else's.  I've changed wi-fi routers over this time - no diff.  I've moved and changed ISPs (no, not to solve this problem) - no diff.  I've task-managered out of all programs and rebooted.  No diff.  Still the problem persists.  The page starts loading and stalls.  It may or may not continue loading if I gave it enough time, but if it's been longer than 10 seconds with no signs of progress I've found that there's no reason to wait longer.  Yes, I have no patience.  Canceling the load and reloading works...mostly (mostly).  Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries, but eventually the page will load.  Mostly.  Other, non-iOS devices on the SAME FRAKKIN NETWORK can load the exact SAME FRAKKIN PAGES with no issue whatsoever.  It's not always the same page with the issue.  Some nights it's page X, sometimes Y, sometimes, X, Y, Z, and points beyond.  I've moved to some other device to load the SAME PAGE and invariably it works just hunky dunky.  ****, I've even changed my DNS settings on the mini-pad and both of my routers.  No. Diff.
A sample of the "other devices" - MacBook Pro OSX 10.7 Safari, Firefox, and Chrome; Windows 7 laptop; windows 7 desktop; MacBook Air OSX 10.9 Safari and Chrome.  Some of those are running a browser with AdBlock or other addons to reduce the amount of cruft loaded for each page.
Background:  I'm not an idiot or a some found-it-in-a-forum hack.  I've been developing software for 30+ years.  I've built and repaired hardaware many of you haven't heard of, configured routers, decoded binary file formats, debugged modem connection strings, designed complex software, and forgotten more languages than most of today's green-ear grads have ever heard of.  I work equally adeptly in a 'doze, *nix, OSX, GUI, command line, with mouse, without mouse.  But this MF has me stumped.
No, I'm not going to jailbreak.  Pleas don't start.  I'm not morally opposed to it, but IMO it ain't worth the effort.  Work within the system, boyos (and girlos)
***, mates?  any ideas?  Is it the lack of adBlock on the mini-pad? Or something else I've simply got blinders about and I'm 100% missing?
mucho appreciato kids.

Answer 1

Well if nothing else, reading your post was entertaining to me. Thanks. I appreciate it.
Can I assume that you tried the basics ... resetting network settings, resetting all settings, clearing Safari...?
I was trying to help my niece with a similar issue just like yours where Safari would hang and hang and take forever to load a web page. Quite by accident, I found that she had some bizarre website listed in her WiFi settings. When I tapped on the Info circle next to her WiFi network name, there was a website at the bottom of the screen under the proxy settings and I had never seen anything like that before. I had no clue what it was, but I took a shot and deleted it. As soon as I did, Safari started working normally again.
BTW.... Discussion of jailbreaking or suggesting that as an alternative will get your comments booted from this support forum as Apple does not appreciate their iOS being hacked, so nobody here is likely to suggest that to you. That would also void your warranty and open your device up to all sorts of other ugly problems.