Ad Sense Tracking in FF or IE7

Does it make a difference if only one ad is shown at a time?

[otem]

From my research it seems like it is not possible to determine the ad destination for ads clicked in the Firefox or IE7 browsers.

Is this the case, or am I reading old threads?

Also, I'm using half banners that only show one ad at a time. Is this situation unique, because if I know the ad was clicked, I wouldn't have to determine which of up to five different ads it was? Is this information able to be grabbed?

Maybe?

[joelgreen]

Secure browsers do not allow parent document to access iframe content (because you could open local drive in iframe and read its contents, etc.) So you cannot read ad target url (unless surfer uses insecure browser).

But google shows ad target url in the browser's status bar, like "go to www.target-site.com". Loggers can access this information (so they do). This would not work if surfer disallowed status bar changes by javascript (there is and option in Firefox, not sure about IE7).

[otem]

Thanks Joel for your reply. While it wasn't what I was hoping to hear, it is good to know what the limits are.

Let me paraphrase to make sure I understand correctly.

With modern day browsers, it is just not possible to grab the contents of a third party iframe, such as the one AdSense uses. It is not simple a matter a lack of a current script written to do this, since the task at hand is not possible.

However, with the vast majority modern browsers with default settings (am I right on this?) there are some things script can tell:

* If the user left the website through a link in an iframe.
* What the status bar said when the user left through that link.
* What the src of the iframe was that the user left on.
* Normal stuff like ip address, time, what the page that ad was on, platform...

Using the status bar, one can determine where the user left to, but not all browsers place this information there. FF and IE7 by default behaviours do not place this information there.

There is no other way to determine where the user left to besides the status bar.

From the iframe src, one can determine colors used, channel and publisher ids, the page the user came from, and a couple of other details.

It is not possible to determine the text of the ad.

Could anybody confirm if my understanding is correct?

Thank you.

[otem]

Might someone be able to confirm my understanding is correct?

Thanks.

[joelgreen]

Your questions are more for javascript thread/gurus. Try asking them there.

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[netchicken1]

Easy
Yes

use adlogger, its free, it does it.
Colors, formats, targets, etc, etc,