Slow Page Loads: Is It Just Me?

I have a 30mbs connection and recently—past few months—page loads have become painfully slow, or in most cases never completes.
I have tested via my providers speed test and several online speed test sites and my connection is in excellent shape.
I can load pages without 'ad' type content and all is fast, but going to any popular news site, or any site that has lots of ads and flash content, I get painfully slow response or in most cases the page never completes loading.
Has anyone else noticed a slow down recently? Is this simply that websites have become so filled with ad clutter that they will not load?
Just wondering if it is just me and if I should start the provider-support-**** route or learn to live with it.
Thanks...

Which browsers is it on?
For Safari
Reset Safari
Run these commands in terminal
     defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.25
     defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitResourceTimedLayoutDelay 0.0001
For Chrome
     1. Open chrome
     2. Preferences > Under the Hood
     3. Under the privacy section, uncheck the first 2 boxes and also the last box.

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