Google: Please Disable Your AdBlock
AdSense July 23rd, 2007 - By Haochi
Another Google NonSense: The Inside AdSense blog is telling people to turn off their AdBlock, a popular Firefox extension that “allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed.” [Wikipedia]
Google’s reasoning?
[W]e’ve found that Adblock Plus, an add-on that sometimes gets installed with Firefox, can prevent you from accessing your account on the AdSense homepage.
Now why would someone block a site that they want to visit so bad? (FYI: The site that serves the AdSense ads is totally unrelated to the AdSense homepage)
People install these extensions for a reason, Google.
UPDATE: Or shares his insight in the comment, “After the firefox update alot of adsense users were having problems logging into Adsense. When Google investigated they found that Adblock Plus was behind the problems people were having logging into adsense. Google did not tell adsense users not to use Adblock, they only said to shut it off *before logging in*. If it’s giving people problems to log in then that makes alot of sense.” My bad.
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
This post seems more of a nonsense than the google post, since it leaves out alot of info, and makes it seems like Google was just telling people to turn off Adblock Plus. After the firefox update alot of adsense users were having problems logging into Adsense. When Google investigated they found that Adblock Plus was behind the problems people were having logging into adsense. Google did not tell adsense users not to use Adblock, they only said to shut it off *before logging in*. If it’s giving people problems to log in then that makes alot of sense.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
i do not hav a web site, i only want to access my gmail.com for my mail and google won’t let me. why? I no not want to always get google site. how can I get my e mail w/o it?
January 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am
i typed a commet already and this site keeps returniin to me is it because i non’t have a web site and don’t belong on this site? I don’t understand why I cannot get my email to come up w/o going through all this trouble. I don’t want google site to come up either. I used to be able to access my mail w/o this.