Comments on: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Takes Aim at Making Google Adsense Obsolete

By: Tanner

Tanner — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:33:11 +0000

IE users are so dumb. They think every little thing is going to invade their privacy. So what if they turn off ads then I will make the script to detect it and boot them from my site.

By: doctors

doctors — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:35:10 +0000

Adsense is the biggest scamning the history of the internet. I was barely making anything on Adsense on my blog and I got a notice that my accoutn was suspended due to invalid clicks? I was using for almost 2 weeks? Should I even bother with the appeal? Has anyone been successful, to be totally honest, I didnt even click on my links much, I just threw the scripts on there to see how this stuff works and bam im gone! So its no big deal that I lost it but still, that was like $15 i didnt have before! This happen alot?

By: Alyssia

Alyssia — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:55:03 +0000

If this new IE does block ads like adsense - won’t it block out ads like adbrite, bidvertiser and chitika too ??

how can it just target adsense and no others ????

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:57:49 +0000

I do not think IE relevant these days. Its very rare i ever use it although like most people i have it installed.
No doubt Google will come up with a counter measure that will invade our privacy even further.
It appears that Google has taken the title of Big Brother and now use the novel 1984 as their inspiration.

Seems odd Bill isnt taking that path too.

By: Bill - Online Business Logic

Bill - Online Business Logic — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:50:59 +0000

I can’t see myself ever using IE again in ernest. I still have it installed on a couple of machines for testing, but I tend to use Firefox and Flock 95% of the time. I just wish that Mozilla would do something about their memory leak as even tweaked up I find I have to restart my browser every now and then to free up RAM.

@Doctors - Adsense can be quite profitable depending on your niche and the traffic you get. I think you answered your own question with “I didnt even click on my links much” - Google count any clicks on your own links as fraud (which it is!) and will obviously suspend your account for that.

@Jason - Bill Gates is no longer in charge, he stepped down as chairman last month!

Of course MS will keep trying to win back market share, but I see them slipping further and further. My stats show less than 10% of my users use IE now, although I tend to have a techie/business audience - I think that’s the way it’s going!

Bill

By: Murfreesboro SEO

Murfreesboro SEO — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:41:43 +0000

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By: Geeks on Steroids

Geeks on Steroids — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:29:23 +0000

I think a lot of the people that surf the web looking to buy merchandise still use IE.

Most people who have been around awhile and spend lots of time online use FireFox. But then they are less likely to make a purchase.

By: Stockholm

Stockholm — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:40:58 +0000

I doubt this will influence a lot of the affiliate market, unless they ship it per default. The same discussion came around when it was fresh to browse with Javascript turned off, but look how that panned out.

Totally agree about the Adwords up / Adsense down though… it’s horrible these days. Makes you wonder when Google will push harder for CPA-based advertising.

By: Charles - Marketing Minefield

Charles - Marketing Minefield — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:55:26 +0000

This is a typical Microsoft innovation - something aimed at hindering competitors rather than actually providing something of real value.

I’m not convinced it’ll make much of a difference to AdSense or other advertising programmes.

By: Nels Wadycki » Is IE7 filtering out Google Ads?

Nels Wadycki » Is IE7 filtering out Google Ads? — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:55:30 +0000

[…] And some insight on Internet Explorer 8 which will apparently be doing the same thing. Now, yes, I can see how security experts would be skeptical of AdSense as being a form of spyware, but you could also (and I would think perhaps more successfully) argue that Google Analytics is even worse. (And yes, putting the two together is even worse) […]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:52 +0000

I can’t get Adsense to work using IE8 and IE8 has affected other websites I own. My website Adsense works under IE7. So IE8 is now standards (almost) compliant so why do so many webs now report errors? IE8 has bugs as well.

Context sensitive adverts is to my mind ideal. emailing people is not. If Adsense can provide contect sensitive adverts on pages of my website then who can complain about that? It is my website (or a clients) If the visitor doesn’t like it they can leave.