IE 6 and 7 not showing adsense for a lot of sites

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IE 6 and 7 not showing adsense for a lot of sites

jedimaster

10:49 pm on Jan 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi everyone,

IE 6 and 7 are not showing adsense for a lot of sites. Firefox does show fine.

Is anyone experiencing the same problem?

Lame_Wolf

11:11 pm on Jan 18, 2009 (gmt 0)

I use IE6 and refuse to upgrade to IE7, but I have seen it happen with my site. What I normally do is to visit a site I know has adsense on it. Then, when I return to my site, my ads appear.

I did create a few adsense blocks where they open up in a new window. But due to the amount of times where they would not show (the other adverts were showing), I decided to remove them.

Hobbs

12:21 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes I can confirm the same for IE7 and not Firefox.
Something seems to be broken yet again.

Play_Bach

1:01 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

I just checked a site (in the USA) using IE7 and ads were showing just fine, so if there's a problem with IE, it appears it's not everywhere.

Hobbs

1:32 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Yes it is working now
Previously Opera, Chrome and IE7 were not showing ads
Only Firefox did.

norbiu

3:39 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Still can't see it on Firefox, but working on Safari. What's going on?

jedimaster

7:14 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

For big publishers (UPS club members?), the ads are showing just fine. It's only the smaller sites that are having problem.

It seems to be the javascript problem.

jedimaster

7:16 am on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Here is the link that I could find. IE patch seemed to have caused the problem.

[threadwatch.org...]

Lame_Wolf

12:18 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Here is the link that I could find. IE patch seemed to have caused the problem.

not in my case.

norbiu

1:16 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

That article is from 2005.

jedimaster

2:17 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

hi norbiu,

Yes, the article is from 2005. I'm aware of that. What I am speculating is that the problem happened before in 2005 and happening now again?

Here is one member reporting the same problem (go down to comment by beggers):
[webmasterworld.com...]

jedimaster

2:25 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

It happened as recently as Nov last year as seen in this post:
[webmasterworld.com...]

norbiu

2:28 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

I just tested on IE6 and IE7 and it seems to be working. I'm only having problems on Firefox Mac at the moment.

But the thing is that the updates take hours to show up on the site. I added a new unit like 4-5 hours ago and it's still not showing up on any browser.

I preferred the old AdSense code...

rash

7:40 pm on Jan 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

I had this problem on my Windows 2003 server. When I disabled the default firewall, the ads came back. Weird o_O

Lame_Wolf

3:40 am on Jan 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

[quote]I preferred the old AdSense code.../quote]

Me too. Much easier to know what channel is what / making changes etc.

jedimaster

7:14 am on Jan 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Sorry, guys. The problem is isolated to my XP machine with IE 6 & 7 parallel install.

Sorry for false alarm.