In the official House Ads plugin, would it be possible to add a “don’t show ads to anonymous visitors” preference?
Use case…
My community is set up that anyone can join/create-an-account. So I have a banner that encourages that, and Discourse itself does a great job with the “you seem to be enjoying…” prompts, like/reply leads to login/create-account, etc.
I’m using a house-ad to encourage people to subscribe. That puts them in specific discourse-group which grants them extra things.
So anonymous users are seeing both the “make a free account” and the upsell-house-ad. It would be better [in my opinion] if they were only offered one “next step”. Anonymous? we lead them to make a free account. Logged-in? they see the house-ad. (And of course if they’re in the group that the subscription plugin grants them, there’s no house-ad.)
I haven’t looked to see just how to do it, but I think that the simple solution is to hide those with CSS. Just stick some css in your house ads to make it easy to hide them for anonymous users.