Way to make ads unclickable for webmasters?

[fredw]

I have a new Macbook. Previously a PC person, I'm still getting used to the trackpad. Just now, I clicked on the same ad on my own site twice in the span of a few minutes by accident. I have already sent a message to Google to apologize, but, has anyone come up with a way to continue to allow ads to display on a site but make them unclickable? I understand this might entail modifying the adsense code, but since the modification would only apply to pages shown on my own machine, certainly that would be OK.

Simply not showing the ads to myself is not acceptable, we must see the ads to be able to filter the objectionable ones (admittedly sometimes a useless game of whack-a-mole, but still important to be able to do sometimes).

Anyone ever come up with a good answer to this?

[Quadrille]

Changing adsense code without permission would NOT be ok, and could get you kicked out.

If you come up with a solution, run it past Google before use.

[malachite]

Practice, fredw, practice. ;)

It's really easy on the Macbook to nearly click on your own ads, particularly if your ads are placed near the side scroller bar.

Sorry if you already know this, but if not then try to scroll using the trackpad instead of click-holding on the scroller bar. Touching the trackpad with two fingers instead of one so it works the same way as the wheel on a PC mouse. :)

[Tropical Island]

I just bought a new PC laptop for the first time.
I had no experience with the touch pad.

As I started surfing pages were opening automatically.
I had no control over it.
After a little investigation I discovered that the touch pad had a double touch feature to click on a link that was set "on" by default. My heavy touch was driving it crazy.

I bought myself a wireless mouse and disabled the double touch and resolved the problem however it would have been easy to click on ads without wanting to.

I wonder how many other first time users run into this problem?

[fredw]

Well... that was exactly my problem. I had enabled the tap-on-trackpad-is-left-click. I've turned that off now and I feel much safer. :-)

I still wish there was a way to display but make ads unclickable on your own machine.

What I really wish was if we could have the ability to submit an IP address to Google that all clicks from should be automatically ignored.

[malachite]

What I really wish was if we could have the ability to submit an IP address to Google that all clicks from should be automatically ignored.

It would ... but what about those of us who aren't on a fixed IP? Mine changes a) when I reset the router, or b) the ISP will assign a different one every few days.

I'm sure G would get pretty fed up of getting a steady stream of emails from folk like me telling them it'd changed.

[fredw]

It could be something we set ourselves by entering the IP in our Adsense control panel.

It could even be more automated than that. There could be a "track my IP option" in the Adsense control panel, and then everytime you log into Adsense, it updates and saves your current IP to ignore clicks from...

[eeek]

I've had accidents over the years. Google has never said anything and I don't think the clicks were counted. It's pretty much trivial for Google to discard clicks from the same computer that you log into your Adsense account with.

Accidents happen and Google appears to know that and deal with it.