Internet Explorer 7 Blocking Google AdSense?
Nathan at InsideGoogle says that his Internet Explorer 7 beta is blocking Google AdSense and Chitika contextual advertisements from being served. Google AdSense is the life and blood of many in the web publishing and development community and site owners, as well as Google, will not be happy to hear about this bug.
Nathan writes :
There is one possibility: that IE7’s new security features block AdSense by decision, some security default that blocks certain types of JavaScript, something that would force Google to alter the way Google serves AdSense ads just to avoid losing a large percentage of the two billion a year AdSense pulls in.
I wonder what other methods you could serve ads by? Maybe installing some code on your server that processes the ads locally and serves them as local JavaScript? I guess it all depends on what is causing the bug, and whether the IE team is willing to write an exception.
Microsoft’s Robert Scoble did pipe up in Nathan’s comments to lend explanation to the problem:
This is NOT intentional behavior. The IE 7 team is working on this as we speak. Remember, this isn’t even a full beta. It’s an inbetween test release so that we can find things like this that don’t work right.
The Google AdSense PR team also added some extra insight:
IE7 disables javascript with the security setting on “high”, which would not allow AdSense ads to show along with numerous features of most websites. IE6 works exactly the same and the phenomenon is definitely not specific to Google AdSense. It is likely that whomever did the test had their security setting on “high”. However, this is not the default setting and we believe most users would not have a good experience on the web having javascript blocked.
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I’ve be running a few different versions of IE7 BETA since late last summer and have not see this behavior. Not once. It looks like Nathan has backed off a bit on this claim…
“I may have rushed this one. While the issue exists, it appears that a large number of people do not have this problem. Understand that while reading this, and read the update at the end.”
Doesn´t make sense Microsoft to block Google Ads… The result would be Firefox presence to double, or even to triple…
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Not blocking but highjacking, I have google as home page for IE 7, at opening the page changes to MSN, it does not change the setting on properties, just makes google’s page desapear.
I get about 30% fewer page views in Google adsense than I do in Google analytics. The most likely cause is the security settings on IE browsers. If that percentage is a good representation of all browser settings, then that is a significant hit for Google and all adsense publishers.
i just downloaded IE7. it does not show adsense. hence it’s clear that MS is deliberately doing this…
I found that this issue was not caused by my normal Microsoft IE7, (version 7.0.5730.13, but by IE7Pro.
Clicking on Tools>IE7Pro Preferences>Modules and un-selecting the “Ad Blocker” check box, then restarting IE caused the ads (specifically my Google AdSense) to show properly. (of course)
So, this doesn’t appear to be an action by MS to intentionally block AdSense ads. (as of this date , anyway, which is July 22, 2008.)
I Hope we can just block all this adsence why a customer want to have someone else following his personal visits, Google is just crazy, is a good business to keep personal info in his own servers, so they can share with his personal clients. BETTER JUST STOP THIS ANALYTICS!
I almost always use Firefox browser because of the unstable and frot with virus problems with Internet Explorer, but was testing my website in all browsers when I discovered IE 7 was blocking all my Google Adsense ads also! Another friend checked, who is still using an old version of IE and everything was fine. However, I’m wondering how many of my viewers are missing out on the ads? This has caused a significant reduction of my income for the last several months, and I attribute it to the overwhelming use of IE 7. What is an Adsense publisher to do when there are so many IE 7 users now?
My google ads on all my sites are being blocked by MS, it’s disgusting that they are doing this. I can’t see any reason why they are blocking it. Most google ads are paid and legitimate adverts, it’s the pop-ups that they need to concentrate on, not your average joe that is trying to fend their way within the competitive throng of the net. I use firefox for my own use, and only use MS and the other browsers to test my sites. MS are the worse of the bunch these days.
[...] Internet Explorer 7 blocking Google AdSense IE7 disables javascript with the security setting on “high”, which would not allow AdSense ads to show along with numerous features of most websites. IE6 works exactly the same and the phenomenon is definitely not specific to Google AdSense. It is likely that whomever did the test had their security setting on “high”. However, this is not the default setting and we believe most users would not have a good experience on the web having javascript blocked. [...]
To display Adsense in your IE7 go to Tools->Internet Options->Security, press on Custom Level and under Scripting select: Enable