iDon’t See Any Adsense Ads?
I usually take Saturdays off, but today I have found a few extra moments to make a post about something that I found quite interesting.
Now most of you may know that I am a PC guy. Most of us are usually either PC people or Mac people. I am am on the edge of becoming a Mac guy, My PC just makes me quite angry at times, sometimes I have dreams about me tearing apart the PC guy from those Mac commercials.
So I am on my way to becoming a Mac Guy. PC people you can try to talk me out of it, but I don’t think it will work.
Last night I had an opportunity to play around with a friends iMac. Now besides it being awesome, I found an interesting feature. I checked out my blog to see how it looked in Safari, and I noticed something odd. My adsense ads were not showing up? I guess Mac’s block Adsense ads. I am not sure how I feel about that. My most major concern is that even if the the ads don’t show up, does it still show up as a page impression? While I was on the Mac I did not check out the source code to see if it was still there. I imagine that it was.
Maybe some of you Mac users, can let me know if you see the ads on my blog, and if you can’t can you see the Adsense code in the source code of the web page. And PC people feel free to try and convince me to stay PC…if you can!!!
I’ve always been a PC user. Just go Mac.
Ren B’s last blog post..Blog Badly
I’m not sure about safari, but I know you can get an add-on for firefox that does something similar. There’s a couple you can use, one is noscript, which simply doesn’t run any scripts on a page (and thus wouldn’t count as a page view, I believe), or adblock, which I believe works similarly, and also wouldn’t load the code at all.
I’ve personally never understood those add-ons, why someone would care that much. Except for using it on pop-ups, which firefox does a good enough job blocking to begin with, it hurts the publisher too much to block their ads, its just… Cruel.
Skolor’s last blog post..Planning Advertising
I’m a Mac user and I see the ads, but I don’t use any kind of adblocker. Good to hear that you’re considering to switch, I myself switched a couple of weeks ago and I couldn’t be happier!
Sano’s last blog post..LowKey Stand
I’m a mac person. Safari blocks ads, but if you use Firefox (or Opera etc.) it won’t. I checked the source code, and it came up:
in place of the adsense code.
Keira’s last blog post..The Lure of the Screen
This is the first time I have ever gotten any Mac support!
Most people try to convince me to stick with the PC
Well, I’m a PC user, yet I’m not going to try to discourage you from switching. But, I do have one request to ask…please, if you do make the switch, don’t be one of those stuck up Mac users that think that Macs are the greatest just because they’re Macs. In my humble opinion I think that Macs are going down the same road that Microsoft has gone down (albeit a lot less far down than Microsoft), evidenced by their retarded design of the Macbook Air (click here and here for more info). And that the only people that truly have any right to brag are the Linux users who actually do use the most customizable and best operating system on the planet.
Chris Jones’s last blog post..It’s All About Balance – 6 Tips To Balance Your Life
I agree with Skolor, it’s cruel to use it and I don’t even think ads are annoying (except for pop-ups). And Chris, do your research, don’t just switch. If you’re using apps which are not widely used you might have to check if there’s a equivalent app for the Mac. But you’re probably good to go because there are a lot of apps available for the Mac (I stumbled on this site yesterday, you might find it useful: http://www.opensourcemac.org/). The only real problem I had so far was my external hard drive. Macs can’t write to NTFS (and Windows machines can’t write to hfs+), so you might have to format your disk, if you have one. FAT32 works for both though but it has it’s flaws. I’ve tried to use 3rd party apps for reading writing to NTFS on the Mac and to hfs+ on the PC, but the Mac app crashed my computer and the Windows app crashed my hard drive.
And don’t become a total fanboy, they’re weird and scary, lol.
Sano’s last blog post..LowKey Stand
I’m a mac guy and I hate to be the one that will tell you this but Safari doesn’t block ads, only if you install a plugin to do it. I see adsense everywhere.
I have no plans to become a “stuck up Mac using Fanboy.” The main reason why I would make the switch in because from what I have seen and research the Mac much easier integrates all of the things that I do with a computer (ie. Audio, video, web design, photoshopping etc).
@Thiago Guerra: My firend did not have a plug-in installed. She just isn’t technologically savvy enough to have done so. So I still not sure why the weren’t showing up
Oh, btw, added you to the blogroll.
Ren B’s last blog post..Blog Badly
It isn’t as hard as you would think to install a plugin in firefox, and I would assume its nearly as easy in Safari. Its also possible that it was blocked by raising the internet security settings, since adsense uses cross-site scripts. I don’t know what you would have to set those settings to to cause it note to load, but I’m sure the highest setting would block them, since it does raise a potential for exploits.
If I were to switch from being primarily a PC user to anything else, it would definitely be to using Linux. Just because I know if what I want doesn’t exist, I can probably find a few other people who want it and make it. If you’re reasonably technologically savvy, its fairly simple to do just about anything you want from a Linux box, and you can usually find better documentation on how to do it than you will with other systems.
It is probably just the browser. Was it a friends mac, or a brand new one? If it was a friends, maybe they have a popup blocker or something. That would suck if by default the Adsense ads are blocked, it is kind of taking away from our rights to see the real internet… Can you say AOL?
Wade’s last blog post..How do I increase traffic
The first thing I do at any computer, work or a friends, Mac or PC is block all adsense ads in their browser.