February 8, 2006

googlejuicer

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?

Posted by hugh macleod at February 8, 2006 9:37 AM | TrackBack
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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.

Posted by: Daniel Nicolas at February 8, 2006 9:54 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.

Posted by: James Governor at February 8, 2006 10:43 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).


Posted by: dl at February 8, 2006 11:08 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)

Posted by: Barry Dorrans at February 8, 2006 11:15 AM

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

Posted by: Andreas at February 9, 2006 4:21 AM

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

Posted by: Michael Martine at February 9, 2006 11:12 PM

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

Posted by: Robert Scoble at February 10, 2006 6:40 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.

Posted by: Jerry at February 10, 2006 8:30 PM