Do you ever click your own ads by mistake?

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    When I'm working on the laptop, I am a spaz with the touch pad.  I've accidentally clicked on a few of my ads...  Anyone else done this or worry when it happens?  Don't want to irritate Google...

  2. charlemont profile image76
    charlemontposted 15 years ago

    I did clicked 2 or 3 times over the course of 4 years.
    Using Firefox + No Script plugin to disable javascript makes sure no ads are clicked because they aren't displayed.

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      wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, charlemont.  I will give that a shot.

  3. dawei888 profile image61
    dawei888posted 15 years ago

    One time I accidentally clicked on that darned Scientology.org video that comes up on 99% of my Hubs!

  4. Anti-Valentine profile image69
    Anti-Valentineposted 15 years ago

    Not yet, but I do have the NoScript plugin which I forgot about. I should update it.

    Does anybody know how many clicks it would take before you get kicked by Google?

    1. charlemont profile image76
      charlemontposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I guess we'd better never know that!

  5. embitca profile image82
    embitcaposted 15 years ago

    Never, I have Adblock Plus installed. I never even see the ads unless I disable it. If you are worried about your own clicking, install Adblock Plus for Firefox. Then when you need to check ad placement, you can just disable it, then re-enable.

  6. kmackey32 profile image54
    kmackey32posted 15 years ago

    Oh i have a few times.

  7. earnestshub profile image71
    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    In 10 months I have clicked on ads accidentally about a dozen times.

    1. Andrew0208 profile image57
      Andrew0208posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Did you receive any Google's sledge hammer hit on you?

  8. flread45 profile image55
    flread45posted 15 years ago

    You must have made money on those clicks Earnesthub smile

  9. Anti-Valentine profile image69
    Anti-Valentineposted 15 years ago

    Fraudulent clicks...and with a name like earnest! big_smile

  10. weblog profile image57
    weblogposted 15 years ago

    While on HP, we will hardly know if our share of ads are showing by the time we click on them by mistake.

 
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