Hmmm, that’s weird. I haven’t changed anything in the Google Adsense configuration for a while now. But maybe Google did. Technically, the Google ads come directly from Google’s servers, using their own code that gets loaded separately, so they could technically make a change that would make an ad blocker no longer recognize their ads. But the size shouldn’t change. For what it’s worth, this is what I’m seeing. (For some reason, it’s repeated, and in the wrong language, and not at all relevant):
@raccoon city: That is a bit excessive… First time I’ve seen that. I wouldn’t use that ad banner size if I knew it could inflate that much, but the problem is that everyone gets different ads based on their interests, so it’s hard to know what others are seeing.
Nothing beats Amazon, though. You could buy a sausage-stuffing machine, and then be inundated with ads or whatever listing the 47 other types of sausage-stuffing machines they carry.
What?, like having one is never enough?
But yeah, Goggle’s ads are pretty much rehashes of what I may’ve looked at at GB or wherever. They probably grab any’n’all browser history or just plain track you like one of those cows with one of those RFID thingies stapled to their ears.