Hi, on our forum we allow artistic nudity to be posted. However, this is against the AdSense policy and from time to time they require us to remove AdSense from specific pages. I suspect this can be achieved with some custom Javascript that compares the current topic ID against a blacklist and the…

[image] omarfilip: If you serve AdSense ads through Google Ad Manager (formerly DFP), perhaps you could do something like this: I’m using plain old AdSense, so I’m afraid that won’t work. [image] Mittineague: Maybe you could limit such “specific pages” to a category requiring being in th…

[image] bartv: I’m using plain old AdSense, so I’m afraid that won’t work. Google Ad manager can fill in your unsold inventory with AdSense ads, so if AdSense itself doesn’t have a feature you need, switching to Google Ad Manager to serve those same ads could give you more options. …

I’m revisiting this topic because AdSense just paused ad serving on our entire site because of a few infringing posts. Best would be if I could not render ad units on selected pages at all. Is there any way I can prevent the Ads Plugin to run on selected pages, or would the maintainers be willing to…

I would say a tag is the way to go, I support a no_ads_tags site setting

I thought about that too, but the issue with tags is that users can remove them again (you can’t ‘lock’ a staff tag, right?). I need to be absolutely sure no ads will be shown on those topics, so I need iron control over the exclusion list - a ‘don’t remove’ policy won’t be enough.

Tags support all sorts of magic. They can be hidden staff only, for example ;p

Either way you’re going to need a better solution than display:none, if Google catches that they can terminate the account outright.

[image] sam: Tags support all sorts of magic. They can be hidden staff only, for example ;p :mindblown: I never realised that, that’s fantastic! [image] Stephen: Either way you’re going to need a better solution than display:none, if Google catches that they can terminate the account out…

[image] bartv: :mindblown: I never realised that, that’s fantastic! Hidden tags, and hidden staff only tags are super handy for all sorts of use cases. On meta we use “staff only, visible” for a “planned” tag (which only we can apply) “staff only, hidden” are handy for cases where you want …

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neil (Neil Lalonde) May 27, 2019, 2:37pm 15

I also support a “no_ads_tags” setting. Will add it to my list.

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