Google Recommends Turning Off AdBlock
The Inside AdSense blog is reporting on an issue some people are facing after upgrading to the latest version of Firefox. In some cases, if you have the AdBlock add-on installed with the latest version, you will be unable to log into your AdSense account to manage your advertising. Google recommends turning off AdBlock until a fix is found.
Of course, AdBlock is a bad thing for companies like Google, since it blocks Google ads from appearing, but Google wouldn’t have a reason to be biased….
But seriously, it’s likely AdBlock is doing something strange, blocking not just Google’s ads, but the websites where ad accounts are managed, so I wouldn’t go imagining some sort of conspiracy theory.
(via Digg)
I actually ran into this the other week. Google changed something with the login page for AdSense that was being blocked. So I just allowed the directory. No harm done.
Comment by Jason Schramm | July 24, 2007
I noticed this change too, and simply added an ABP exception for the adsense site so I can log in again.
Comment by David | July 25, 2007