protect yourself from clicking your own ads

After reading all those articles about how serious the consequences are if you click on your own ads, you want to make sure you won’t click it accidentially. In this article, I’ll list out the simplest methods to protect you from clicking on your own Adsense ads.

It is actually pretty straight forward, just disable the javascript. If you disable it, you won’t see any Adsense ads appearing in your browser anymore. Thus, preventing you from click on it accidentially. I’ll out the procedures for disabling the javascript in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Although there are many different broswers too but I believe the concept is the same. (The below picture is captured from Firefox)

Please keep in mind that if you disable the javascript, application rely on it will be disable too. So, this method is just for your reference only and remember you can turn it back on anytime.

For FireFox

1. On the menu bar, click the “Tools”, then click on the “Options”.
2. Select the “Content” tab
3. Uncheck “Enable Javascript”
4. Restart the browser

For Internet Explorer

1. From the menu bar, click the “Tools”, and then select the “Internet Options”.
2. Select the “Security” tab
3. Select “Custom Level”
4. Go to Active scripting and then select “Disable”
5. Restart the browser