Web Clips in Safari Dashboard?

Just wondering if people have luck trying to set up web clips for their Dashboard. I keep trying different sites and dont have much luck. The only answer I get from Apple is that it depends on how the website is set up. But something has to work
Im trying a few other sites and Ive got clips up right now (am waiting to see if theyll change in the next day as thats when it usually goes wrong) but IM noticing now that whenever I open dashboard, I end up getting all these Safari windows opening with urls of https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net...
and it seems its happening even if Im nowhere near the webclip but even over another widget or a pre-installed widget like a sticky.
I did a search on that URL and it said it was some kind of error or Google glitch related to google ads etc..but that url keeps opening over & over & over but it's just a blank page...so it seems like even if I can get these web clips to actually work and update - they wont be usable if every time I open the Dashboard, I have a half dozen blank windows open in Safari.
Just seems like its a no win
I also wonder how can you tell which websites actually are written in a way that if you put a webclip into the dashboard it would work. My lastest attempt at trying was using an editorial cartoon that I know changes every day or two
Thanxx

dont know..but it just stopped doing this.

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