ESRB advertisments before daily challenges are freezing. The ads take up to 10 min to finish

I have the same problem!

If I run into a problem during the daily challenge and a second commercial runs before I am finished, the Win 10 Solitaire collection window, all too often, CRASHES and CLOSES on me!

June 13, 2018 was the most recent time this happened. The dairy queen commercial ran before I had finished, the window grayed out, a "waiting/buffering" small rotating blue circle appeared, then the window CLOSED!

When I re-opened the ms solitaire collection, ANOTHER advertisement ran, stuttering/freezing while it played. It did NOT finish before I was allowed to play the Klondike solitaire for the day. I finished that in less than two minutes, then ANOTHER ADVERTISEMENT
played before I was allowed to play freecell, the last of the day's challenges! ( I had finished Pyramid, Tri-peaks, and Spider BEFORE the window CRASHED!)

Another comment. Microsoft seems to have added a 1/2 to one second delay between playing games in the solitaire collection, presumably to push their small ads.

Several of the advertisements are STILL BROKEN as of August, 06 2018!

The advertisement for the "daily challenge" is particularly annoying! it goes like this:

Long pause showing only a white window.

Dialog ends with the word "is" not quite completed.

Back to another long pause, with the audio and video still paused.

another four words of dialog, with the video playing.

another pause, with both the dialog and video stopped.

Goes to next daily challenge WITHOUT FINISHING THE ADVERTISEMENT!

Or a couple of days ago, I received FIVE advertisements that either DIDN'T RUN AT ALL( cards being dealt in a circular formation then goes straight to the daily challenge) , or paused during the advertisement. ONE BEFORE EACH OF THE FIVE DAILY CHALLENGES!
(details submitted in my feedback immediately afterward. Rating ZERO)

For August 5th, I had to close the daily game after completing two of the five challenges. I was told that I was OFFLINE and had to go ONLINE to complete the challenge.

I WAS ONLINE! and your webpage KNOCKED ME OFFLINE WITH IT! ( MS daily challenge on a windows 10 computer) I could easily access my free Yahoo email webpage immediately after each notification, so there was NO PROBLEM WITH MY INTERNET CONNECTION.

It's the Ads... they are taking forever to load. I'v been taking over an hour to play what normally was 10 mins. I keep closing & reopening & eventually I get ads that will load. The worst is the Lexus ads, if they pop up it will halt your play until it
finishes loading, sometimes 10 seconds & does show up on time to finish. There is no fix, unless they remove the culprit ads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It happened again for the June 15th daily challenge!

I clicked on the tripeaks challenge, an oral b commercial played, then the window grayed out and CLOSED!

I had to suffer through another commercial when I re-opened the daily challenge again, before I could start tripeaks (as the first game I played).

Then, after the fourth game, I had to suffer through most of a self promotion commercial (advertising the ms games). It FROZE twice while trying to play!, and didn't completely finish before it allowed me to play the 5th and final daily challenge.

I agree with you. every time I play this game the ads keep locking up my computer and then when I finish the game the app just closes on me because of the ads. I wish they would fix this problem because I don't have time to keep restarting the stupid app.
I am a college student and I have other things to do besides keep restarting this dumb app 20 million time to play three daily challenges. It only take me about 10 minutes or so all depending on the hardness of the puzzles to do all three of the daily challenges.
SOMEONE PLEASE FIX THIS THING ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!