Trying to, but so far I’m not able to replicate your issue.
Correct. There isn’t a designated exclude groups for that setting, but no ads for groups is the setting to use to exclude groups for house ads.
I went ahead and spun up a production discourse site to test out the ad plugin again to see if we can narrow down what the difference is between your site and see if we can get things working correctly.
You can visit https://houseads.discourse.group/ and see that ads are showing to anonymous users, and I’ll go ahead and invite you to the members group (check your email) so that you can check it out.
And if I’m logged in as member1 who is a member of the members group, they don’t see any ads:
As an admin I can still see the ads because I’m not in the members group.
I’ll keep looking looking and see if I see any code changes this year that would affect this. I’m hoping there is just a setting somewhere that we are missing that we need to toggle to get things working correctly.