Are your adlinks actually showing in Internet Explorer

Since last windows update, adsense adlinks blocked

[Kickedout]

Are your adlinks actually showing in Internet Explorer? IE8, IE9.

Adsense issues being blocked in IE noticed in my case from 15th February 2012. All ads showing ok in Chrome and Firefox, but not in IE.

Do you experience the same? Anything you can do about it?

[Lame_Wolf]

Okay in IE6. No idea about 7, 8 or 9.

[DeeCee]

Ads in general showing fine in IE. Tested in IE 9.

However, you might want to check for new IE's Tracking Protection functionality, which is more of a generic content blocker. Block doubleclick, and ads will be dead in the water.

[netmeg]

They display fine for me in IE9.

[Kickedout]

Where's that actually DeeCee (IE's Tracking Protection functionality)? I'm using IE8. My security settings are in middle-high at this moment. Privacy: medium.

[DeeCee]

It's in IE9.
Tools -> Tracking Protection

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Google's taking a lot of bad press right now, microsoft just jumped on them for ignoring privacy too, so if you run adsense make sure to get some <noscript> backup going if you don't already. It's a vicious thing that advertising business.

[Kickedout]

Thanks but I have IE8, not IE9... so can't change anything and adlinks still shows as plain text. I wonder what to change to see it properly...

[DeeCee]

Kickedout,

Huh? You say: "Ad links show as plain text"?
Meaning that they do show up, but differently?

Thats a very different problem from what I originally read as "ad not showing at all" (my interpretation of your first problem description). Entirely different solutions.

What exactly is not showing? Ads not showing as if they are links (underlined), or not functioning at all, when clicked (as in they show up as "links" without an href property.

If Google actually send an ad in response to their Javascript running, then you could be seeing either CSS or more Javascript interference that disturbs how the ads look. Many Script packages (such as JQuery, MooTools) and others have specific code to handle IE8 that suddenly pop into action when you upgrade to that version, and they could be conflicting with other code. Or CSS cascading could be suddenly changing how the ads look.

If you merely have malformed ads, you should be able to see the actual property and styles used in addons such as Web Developer, check the actual page in DOM inspector, Or display the Element information to check what is actually there and how the properties cascade.

[netmeg]

Kickedout PM'd me his site, and his links show up for me in IE9 just fine.

[Kickedout]

DeeCee

Ads are there, but you just see (at least me, in IE8) the anchor text as plain black text, not underlined, no functioning when clicking either

Not malformed ads due to CSS.

Sometimes I see this message: (is in spanish)

Detalles de error de página web

Agente de usuario: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Fecha: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:39:44 UTC


Mensaje: El objeto no acepta esta propiedad o método
Línea: 18
Carácter: 192
Código: 0
URI: [pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

[DeeCee]

You are seeing IE Explorer HTML parsing errors / Javascript call errors.
I'd guess some of the ads show up with code that either is bad (less likely since it is standard Google) or it gets interference from surrounding code on your site making it fail.

the message in the case you show is: "Message: Object does not support this property or method". (Your guess why it is in Spanish)

Indicating that is it most likely a Javascript call failing.
Some property or method is being called, for some Javascript object not loaded at all, or not loaded correctly.

You could try loading the page with debugger on, set to break on failure. Or check the logs to see what is is failing.

BTW.. As I mention in earlier post, many packages such a JQuery/Mootols and other have code that kicks in when they see IE8. There could be a conflict with Google stuff. Explaining why it suddenly showed when you went to IE8.

[Kickedout]

Code comes from adsense directly, but besides, it's been on my pages for a long time so can't be that.

>>or it gets interference from surrounding code on your site making it fail.

I don't think so, because in ALL my sites happen the same, all with different content and domains.

>>Indicating that is it most likely a Javascript call failing.

Certainly with debugger on finds a script error on line 18.
But that's Google's code! And really don't have much to touch there.

My guessing is reinstalling the upgrade should do the trick.
I'll see what happen

[DeeCee]

What is line 18 calling for? I see in the error message that it also complains about a graphics character in that position (mentioning an ascii 192). Maybe it is a Javascript escaping problem when certain language ads are pushed out, or a failure to handle UTF8 multi-byte characters correctly. (Since your error message was in Spanish.)

If the error is in the Google ad code, I doubt reinstalling windows software can fix it.

[Kickedout]

My browser is in spanish in fact and I'm actually in Argentina. Is strange but I experimented the adlinks showing correctly WHILE I was reinstalling the update again. Thought my problem would be solved, but after restarting all keeps the same.

I notice that sometimes the javascript is not acused, but adlinks still don't show properly. Others appears the javascript error.

There's a few characters in yellow when I activated debugger,
The error I find in debugger is: object doesn't accept that property or method

osd.js, Line 18, Character 192

That is: Za(a,c[e])


I also notice a yelow bar on browsers top, advising to check security options a complement couldn't be excuted, on some pages, and the effect is adsense video ad being blocked (or graphic ad? because I can't see it).