Seeing PSAs and blank spaces

[fearlessrick]

I just looked at my home page - big PSA ad, then started crusing around my site and saw more, plus blank spaces where AS ad blocks are supposed to be. It is freaking me out.

Anybody else seeing the same?

I hope this is temporary or a glitch.

[fearlessrick]

Well, I shut down and restarted and viola! back to normal. That was freaky.

[BillyS]

Hmm. I just saw this too and came here to see if anyone else was seeing the same. PSAs and missing ads.

[fearlessrick]

Billy, did yours go back to normal?

BTW: always good to see you around these parts.

[BillyS]

fearlessrick -

Yup. Not showing PSAs and I have all ads showing. I have to admit that I rarely even look at my site (only on Monday, that's a rule) and for some reason I looked at it tonight. As you see by the times, we both spotted this at the same time; I don't think that was a coincidence.

[fearlessrick]

Must have been a glitch. Either that, or we've been chosen for special treatment. ;-)

I know we both deserve it.

I don't look at my site either, except when I'm working on it, which is at least a couple times a week. But then, I'm looking at new pages, not my home page.

[andrewshim]

yes, fearlesrick... been seeing it on and off yesterday. freaked me out too.

[moTi]

well, i'm seeing blank ad spaces for more than a week now. occasionally on ie and persistently on opera.
at least on opera i've looked into the error console and found it's a javascript error in their adsense code that causes the ads not to display. i've reported it today.

maybe it's advisable that you should investigate and report it, too.
i have the alarming impression that the adsense code is so bloated and complicated by now, that the google team has serious problems getting it going smoothly cross-system and cross-browser.

interesting coincidence:
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[edited by: moTi at 12:42 am (utc) on June 4, 2008]