February 8, 2006

googlejuicer

8 Comments

So it say here that Microsoft’s Inter­net Explo­rer 7 can block Goo­gle Adsense.
Is that true? Does that explain why Goo­gle is so keen to join the brow­ser wars? Does that mean inter­net users can block Goo­gle from beco­ming big­ger than Exxon?
Thoughts?

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8 Responses to “googlejuicer”

  1. Daniel Nicolas says:
    February 8, 2006 at 9:54 AM

    Wel­come to the world of Camino. Mozilla’s Camino brow­ser can block good­gle adsense and all sorts of adver­ti­sing. I had to go back into fire­fox or safari to just figure out that my adsense was wor­king. I thought goo­gle had scre­wed up with my account or something. But it was Camino.
    Wouldn’t we want Goo­gle to become big­ger than Exxon? Goo­gle could do a whole lot more good than Exxon could with all that money.

  2. James Governor says:
    February 8, 2006 at 10:43 AM

    I am loo­king for­ward seeing Goo­gle and Mic­ro­soft sue each others cus­to­mers beca­sue they are sca­red of suing each other, when the ad sup­por­ted model begins to over­lap too much. they are *both* going to block each others ads, across services.

  3. dl says:
    February 8, 2006 at 11:08 AM

    The Fire­fox AdBlock exten­sion can block goo­gle ads with no trou­ble, although it doesn’t block anything by default.
    Loo­ked at purely as a tech­no­lo­gi­cal arms race, the next step might be moving the ad gene­ra­tion to the ser­ver side where client side adbloc­kers can’t get at it (with slightly more appro­val and co-operation being requi­red from the likes of web pro­gram­mers and hos­ting com­pa­nies), or it might be as you sug­gest Hugh something invol­ving the client side (with the appro­val of brow­ser users).

  4. Barry Dorrans says:
    February 8, 2006 at 11:15 AM

    Thoughts? It’s atten­tion who­ring.
    The IE7 Pre Beta 2, by default, does not block the goo­gle adsense javasc­ript from run­ning. I can pro­vide nice screen shots, or even bet­ter, ins­tall it and try it your­self.
    Heck, if it was true don’t you think thou­sands of slash­dot rea­ders would have been foa­ming at the mouth already?
    (The only thing that really keeps me in fire­fox is the adblock extension)

  5. Andreas says:
    February 9, 2006 at 4:21 AM

    Safari can block Adsense if you set it up that way. As Barry said, it’s atten­tion whoring.

  6. Michael Martine says:
    February 9, 2006 at 11:12 PM

    If I were Mic­ro­soft – Or a telco, for that mat­ter – I’d be worried about this:
    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0„9075 – 2023600,00.html

  7. Robert Scoble says:
    February 10, 2006 at 6:40 PM

    This is not true. I’d be happy to put anyone in touch with the IE team.

  8. Jerry says:
    February 10, 2006 at 8:30 PM

    The article you culled this from is ama­zingly ill-informed, from IE7 “for almost all ver­sions of Win­dows” to “sec­ret IE7 set­tings”. Bought to you by the black heli­cop­ter divi­sion of Total Bollix Inc.