Ad Sense Preview Tool still useless?

[miguelito]

I'd like to know if anyone has got this to work this year....i have just reinstalled it and all i get are "we are unable to show ads on this page"

I know this is crap because i see the ads myself as do friends all over the world yet according to adsense, no ads are on the page.

What it does tell me is that a certain japanese hotel is advertsiing in all languages and it appears as a series of square boxes in the preview tool list of ads yet i have never seen it advertised.

Anyone know what is going on? I have 4 ads on each page, site is crawled daily, adsense stats keep adding up yet the preview tool is still not working.

Thanks

[david_uk]

Don't right click over the ad block itself. That seems to produce an error. Move the cursor away from the ad block elsewhere on the page then righ click.

[mzanzig]

The preview tool works fine for me. It reveals usually 10 to 12 ads for the respective page. Helps me a lot to weed out the MFAs.

[jchampliaud]

I have not found the preview tool to be useful. The ads it shows me never seem to show up on my site.

[miedmark]

No problems here, works just fine. You are right, right clicking on the ad itself does produce weird results. Make sure you right click on the page, not the ad.

[malachite]

Ad Sense Preview Tool still useless?

Totally useless ;)

You'd think given that Google is promoting Firefox so hard, and wants us to encourage folk to download the Firefox browser, that it'd make the blasted preview tool work with it.

Pretty please Google, let's have a preview tool for something other than Internet Exploder, pleeeeze?

[Mr_Fern]

I wish they added the preview tool into the features while logged in, as opposed to browser extensions.