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Question

Googleleadservices.com

Apr 18, 2013 2:13AM PDT

How can I prevent googleleadservices.com from taking over when I do a Google search in Firefox 20.0.1? Once it takes over the page nothing else happens and I have to close the page or back out of it. It happens with 95% of my Google searches.

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Answer
Try disabling some add-ons
Apr 18, 2013 2:57AM PDT

Press CTRL+SHIFT+A in Firefox to get the Add-ons list. Disable the appropriate one(s).

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googleleadservices.com
Apr 18, 2013 9:25PM PDT

I disabled the only two add-ons having the Google name: Googel Earth Plugin and Google Update, but neither made any difference. There were no other Google add-ons. Maybe I didn't explain the problem as well as I should have in the first place.

When I do a search with Google, the result is a number of websites that Google associates with my search term. When I click on one of these to go to their website, the address bar displays something like this and the page simply hangs, <<http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=Cl6NtXSZxUcvpFZDL6QGuyoCoDrzjs5oD3I-4zTi-rMcGCAAQASC2VCgDUImo3sf9_____wFgyeafh9Cj2A-gAcyd6NsDyAEBqgQoT9BfrsB0P1bIRUKwlMjcaURIsZRmF8Bu3Y57Uh9P_2PEj-Pu8gR5vIAFkE6AB5zilyQ&ved=0CDIQ0Qw&val=ChBiZGQ3ZDQ5MDZlMThjZWNjEJuwxIsFGghsqQUZJsbWziABKAAwpZG3jqLlydByOJ-wxIsFQLDOxIsF&sig=AOD64_1Lvk92axBVub5tpbJlB33CtiykkQ&adurl=http://connecticut.acornstairlifts.com/%3Fsource%3Dgoogle%26adg%3Dconnecticut%26u2%3DStairlift_High_Volume_b>>

With some searches I'm able to go to the website that Google lists, but in about 95% of the cases it goes to googleleadservices.com. I haven't been able to determine what is the difference between those that work normally and the majority that don't.

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Re: googleadservices.com
Apr 18, 2013 9:36PM PDT

It seems you click on a sponsored link (an ad). Don't do that then. Only click non-sponsored links in Firefox, until you solved this.

Any privacy or security or anti-ad software you installed can be related to this issue. It's up to you to find out which of those it is.

Things to try for diagnostics:
- use another browser
- disable more add-ons
- make a new Windows account and try there

Kees

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googleleadservices.com
Apr 19, 2013 4:59AM PDT

Thanks. I would have expected that those links that are sponsored would be identifiable in some way, but they're not. Maybe my best solution is to stop using Google and go with a different search engine altogether.