Snortin about Nortin

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by bluegill_catcher, May 17, 2005.

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    Hello friends, I discovered something at work today I was wondering if everyone here already knew, lol

    I found a computer at work that was left logged on, and was on the net, lol so of course when the coast was clear I went to my website.

    Will, to my surprise, NO Adsense ads were showing, none, zippo.......

    I later asked the IT guy about it, and he laughed and said
    oh we use Norton Anti Virus on every system here, it stops all them adsense ads from showing. Nobody in the whole plant can see any ads like that.

    So I thought, wow,,,,, if true then there are thousands, maybe millions of folks out there running Norton pro etc, that can't even see our ads. Anyone here run norton that says this is true ? I don't think the IT guy was lying. And if there is an option to allow ads to show, I bet the amount of Nortin users that do this, are small.
     
    bluegill_catcher, May 17, 2005 IP
  2. mopacfan

    mopacfan Peon

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    I'd sure like to know if this is true or not. I have no way of testing this.
     
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  3. palespyder

    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    I am running Norton's 2005 Pro and I can see Google Ads fine. I will look and see if I can find any settings about this.
     
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    e10 Well-Known Member

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    I can´t prove it but I believe it to be true. Also folk who use firefox have a powerful ad blocker at their fingertips. I´m sure lot´s of people use it.

    But you know what? I think your ad revenue is safe anyway. There will always be sad sacks like me that prefer to see ads in newspapers and ads on websites.
     
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  5. nevetS

    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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    Norton has an ad blocker that blocks adsense by default. There was a slashdot story about it sometime around a year ago. Most adblockers let adsense through. The adblocker in firefox will give you the option to block google ad images, but text ads it will not block. Adsense seems to have skirted the issue of adblockers by being the most un-intrusive option.

    I run norton system works and don't have the ad blocker enabled/installed. I think it's a separate product.
     
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  6. Solicitors Mortgages

    Solicitors Mortgages Well-Known Member

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    saw ads were blocked by McAfee too, on a customers p.c :mad:
     
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    Norton is the pain in my rear end.. seriously it has caused me nothing but problems recently. There's security, and there's stupidity..
     
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    The option to enable/disable Javascript is an old safety feature in all browsers. Years ago Javascript was off by default. Well, the problem was not Javascript but the Windows vulnerability. I don't know about statistics but Javascript is used widespread in Internet.
     
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