Ads don't pop up until the third reload.

I thought it was just this guy's PC, but it wasn't...

[jonathanleger]

Ok, here's an interesting one.

I had a customer write me and tell me that the AdSense ads would only show up on his page after the third or fourth refresh.

At first I figured, yeah, the mediabot hadn't come on the first few page views, and so it just took a few reloads before the ads popped in.

To humor him I popped over to his page, and sure enough there were no ads. I refreshed 3 times, and on the fourth time, the ads appeared. This was on the same page he said it happened to him.

Has anyone else seen this? I can't duplicate the problem anywhere else but this guy's site.

[OptiRex]

I've seen this happening more and more even on my index pages the past couple of weeks which makes me believe they're up to something.

Quite often it has also thrown up a PSA when finally getting an ad!

[jonathanleger]

Now that you mention it, I've noticed that on my home pages more often as well. Hmm... the game is afoot perhaps?

[icedowl]

I've been seeing my AdLink units doing that as well as regular adblocks.

[ZenArcher]

This has been happening to me for quite some time. I'm using Safari on OS X and I sometimes think it must be my setup. When the ad doesn't show, and no alternate shows, nobody wins. Just a big white space.

Any ideas?

[OptiRex]

They've definitely speeded up today possibly meaning they've either resolved the problem or I'm the only one using my sites and the Net...yeah, right:-)

[humblebeginnings]

Saw the same thing for the last 5 to 10 days.
It means folks visiting your site won't see ads, won't click, meaning no cash!@#$%
Could be one of the reasons some of us see a decrease in earnings this week...