If you’re running a web site or a blog, and you’ve added the Google Adsense advertising program and the Google Analytics’s statistics, you should:

  1. block Adsense, to not alter your impressions and your CTR, and to prevent accidental clicks by you on your own Adsense ads (Google could punish you, with the feared Adsense ban);
  2. block Analytics, to noy alter your website statistics with your own visits / site searches.

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And, thanks to Adblock Plus, a Firefox add-on, you can surf thorough your site without concern, from Mac, Linux or Windows, and without modifying configuration files. :)

You have to install Adblock Plus for Firefox. Then, during the add-on installation or after, add the following Adblock Plus lists (from Easy List):

  • EasyList, to block Google Adsense (or other ads);
  • EasyPrivacy, to block Analytics or other tracking systems.

From now on, your own visits will no longer be counted, and you’ll prevent accidental clicks.

Ok, this solution isn’t so “ethical”: a lot of websites survive thanks to advertising: with everyone installing Adblock, these sites could not longer be able to offer free contents.

So I suggest to disable it with those sites you visit often (you can add exceptions to Adblock Plus).

Do you know other tricks to block Google Adsense and Google Analytics from your own visits? :)

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