When I do a search for any topic (e.g., “wood hardness chart”) the search results I get in the ad section all have googleadservices-dot-com inserted at the front of the results. It won’t let me access any of those pages, because firefox (for example) says “We can’t connect to the server at googleadservices” and when diving deeper, Firefox tells me “You are not securely connected to this site”. This happens on all my browsers - firefox, and safari - on my MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.6.1. I am running AdBlockPlus, but when I turned it off and I still get that error. When I try to go to the URL “googleadservices” directly I get the same error. Very frustrating, I basically can’t do searches. (I am using Norton Safe Search on Firefox, but not on Safari. Doesn’t make a difference in this).
And VPN is OFF, but same results when it’s ON.