I was changing some things about my layout on blogbaltimore.com today and I noticed something strange. The two ad banners that I had placed on the right side were gone. This had happened quite recently. I’m on the site daily and this is the first time I’ve noticed it. So wanting to see if there was some update to the code, I headed over to www.google.com/adsense to log in. Low and behold the login was gone for adsense. My frustrations mounting, I tried to log in to adsense with Internet Explorer. Strangly enough, I could see the login and I could get in.
With Mozilla’s Firefox, I use a plugin called Adblock Plus. Well either Google got wise and changed the code for the login to adsense to be picked up by Adblock Plus, preventing you from logging in and, in a very ironic way, showing you whats happening with your ads. Or Adblock Plus is doing it’s job way to well and preventing you from even participating in a website that even deals in advertising.
Either way, one side is at fault for preventing the other side form doing its job. The only way to get in to adsense in Firefox is to disable Adblock Plus or remove the line for the adsense code from it’s filter…or use IE (eeeeeew!)
December 18th, 2009 on 8:39 am
Too weird. I have similar issues with pop ups for the websites I work with – can’t see the pops and therefore can’t monitor them properly – without disabling various blockers.
December 18th, 2009 on 10:56 am
If that if Adblock doing that, I love it! Haha!
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