The first issue support referenced shows it was fixed. The second issue is related to watching a video on the site which I’m not doing.
Just going to the front page makes 6 of 12 cores run high and causes the fan to turn on. I can verify that the ads blocked counter does not increase after the page has completed loading.
windows 10 user and wanted to add that I just recently installed brave and seeing issues with espn
its not always 100% bad, but i would say over 75% of the time, the site just hangs