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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 12:02 PM
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Firefox isn't an option on the computers here at work.

For what it's worth, when I went home for lunch and used Firefox I didn't see anything in the area under discussion. ('Course, that might have something to do with directing googlesyndication.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file?) Strangely enough, that's the same behavior I'm getting on IE6. Nothing displayed, nothing clickable. Weird.

ps - sorry for the duplicate thread, didn't see the original one.
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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 12:54 PM
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I've tried in IE and they appear just fine.

Yes the directing in your hosts file will stop them appearing. Perhaps something similar is in operation at work under IE
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Old Mar 15, 2005 | 05:41 PM
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The invisible ads are quite easy to find. Just move the mouse over the suspected area, if the mouse pointer/cursor turns to a "hand", there is a hidden link there. And with IE, the link info will show on the bottom left of the window. Right now, I am seeing 4 hidden links:

pagead2.googlesyndication.com/...
www.carsdirect.com
www.FreeCarPricing.com
Honda.Cars.AlltheBrands.com
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 02:32 AM
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Ok, I get them too on IE but not under FF, they are normal. I need to check with google to find out what gives. Hopefully we aren't the first to run into this...
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Old Mar 20, 2005 | 06:30 PM
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Almost as annoying as paying for something and not getting it. Especially almost a year later.

Great service.

Not.
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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by freq,Mar 15 2005, 01:42 PM
yup, just got burned by these again too.
DAMN IT. Twice this morning I went to use the quick reply, typed in my message, clicked outside the box to scroll down and got F@CKED by these hidden links. The bitch is that you cannot just hit the back button, cuz when you do whatever you typed is now GONE.

Please get rid of these nuisances. Please.
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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 08:13 AM
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I haven't figured out what the issue is yet but I'm working on it today. Hopefully I can get it resolved.
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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by cthree,Mar 27 2005, 12:13 PM
I haven't figured out what the issue is yet but I'm working on it today. Hopefully I can get it resolved.
Cool.

Pay yourself Double Time for working on a Sunday Holiday.

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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by freq,Mar 27 2005, 10:45 AM
Cool.

Pay yourself Double Time for working on a Sunday Holiday.

I'll pass your suggestion on to my boss
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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 02:56 PM
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I wasn't able to find anything specific so I just recopied the ad code. Maybe it was something to do with that but I can't say I actually changed anything. If you still run into this problem let me know and I'll take another stab at it.
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