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Internet Explorer 8 is blocking all of the AdSense content at my site! The 120x600 column ad is gone, as is the little 200x60 or so block at the foot of the TOC. (The "Support Wikipedia" ad was gone too until I clicked Compatibility Mode.) BTW, this is IE8 Beta 2, version 8.0.6001.18241)
My questions:
1. Can anyone tell me if we're seeing the end of AdSense ads being a viable income source for small players? Ad filtering in FireFox was bad enough, but if the dominant browser on the market is going to block AdSense, what are AdSense user to do?
2. Has anyone heard anything about workarounds, changes to AdSense, or other programs that ARE compatible (like, I'm guessing, some Microsoft-blessed program?).
Finally, an introduction: I have had amateur enthusiast websites up for about 10 years and have been monetizing them with AdSense for the last four. My returns have been modest but enough to be encouraging, and I had hoped to build the sites and use them for retirement income one day.
Thanks for any help, thoughts, rumors, what-have-you.
Martin
I run the same IE8 Beta 2, version 8.0.6001.18241 and ads are running just fine.
If MS was to block Adsense, I guess hell would brake loose.
I wouldn't worry about MS doing such a thing.
Also, are you running any add ons, like IE7Pro? That also has an ad blocker that's probably turned on by default. I don't know if it would install itself on IE8, but I supposed it's possible. Go into Tools and then Add Ons and see if there's anything there.
I installed IE8 on a Windows Server 2008 test box (a no-no, I know, but that's what I had available) and W2K8 is probably blocking something(?).
Thanks again! I'll get report back if I find anything interesting.
Martin
I remember lusting after a CP/M machine... Hell, I remember taking a computer class in which I used a slide rule to do the math problems...
Thanks for the help! :)
Martin
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker added some new privacy features, including a mode for Web browsing that doesn't remember what sites were visited nor stores small data files called cookies. IE 8 also lets people block ads from companies that track their Web surfing habits across a number of sites, a practice known as behavioral targeting.
According to the article, IE 8 became publicly available yesterday.
The only way to know how IE 8 truly works out of the box is a clean install on a clean machine and it's important to find out because masses of people will soon be getting IE 8 pre-installed on their new computers.
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Here goes the AdSense code
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Attention gif in a nice yellow
Attention! Your computer settings block important parts of this web site!
