Webmasters with Adsense Sites - A Must READ

Ever opened your website to find that all the adsense ads have completely disappeared, you don't see the usual white spaces instead of the ads but the ads are completely gone and the borders from different columns have merged.
It happened to me, I tried opening the site in IE, Opera, Firefox, still the same, tried opening my other sites with adsense and even DP, still the same result.
After searching for a good day and a half, I stumbled across someone elses posting to find a solution. After curing my problem, the first thing that came to my mind was to inform everyone on DP and earn some greens in the process

OK for everyone with the same issue, you need to browse to;
C:Windows:System32:drivers:etc:HOSTS

open HOSTS in notepad, look for these entries;

# [Google Inc][Restricted Zone site]
127.0.0.1 adwords.google.com
127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 adservices.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.googleadservices.com

delete these and save HOSTS ( make sure you save it as the original file and not as .txt )

Now open your browser again and check yor sites, all should be good now.
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This poses some serious concerns for webmasters with adsense websites. I have no idea how I acquired these entries in the HOSTS file but they got there. I could have acquired them when I downloaded kazaalite but not sure. Most importantly, I had a reason to find out the cure as I wanted to view my sites with adsense showing, Imagine the normal visitors who have the same entries, they won't bother looking for a cure as they dont need to. As a matter of fact they won't even realise they have an issue as they visit new websites etc.

Not sure what can be one about this but Google definitely won't be happy about this and maybe the BIG FISH here on DP can pull some strings quick to save our adsense earnings.

 

Yes, a long time ago, I had downloaded Kazaa Lite, and it puts a list of advertisement servers to block especially from popular CPM companies and Adsense. I never figured it out until I learned about using the actual file to block ads.

 

Thanks, the exact same thing was happending to me, I had to use a proxy lol

 

don't you just love when you download something and it installs other stuff on your computer without your knowledge or permission? Grrr.

 

The worrying bit is that programmes like Kazaalite are quite popular and GOD knows how much adsense revenue we're losing due to this issue

 

I never had this problem before but thanks anyway

Didier

 

Might want to try just setting the file to read only. After clearing it.

 

the list contains only unwanted sites. google ads are not listed there atleast in my system.

 

So you're safe for now but for how long, you can't be sure