AdSense plugin comparison

[dandv (Dan Dascalescu)]

So there are two (at least, that I know of) plugins for displaying ads:

Official Advertising / Ad Plugin for Discourse

Summary: Set up advertisements on Discourse GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-adplugin Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features IF YOU ARE RUNNING AN AD BLOCKER RIGHT NOW YOU WILL HAVE A VERY BAD TIME TRYING TO SET THIS UP! TURN IT OFF BEFORE PROCEEDING DOWN THIS PATH! You’ve been warned. This is the officially supported Discourse ad plugin. Install and configure it to start serving ads on your Discourse forum. The plu…

https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-adsense-plugin/11763

Has anyone used both, and can compare? In particular,

• doesn’t break Discourse
• support for displaying ads only to non-logged in (anonymous) users
• support for responsive ads
• ad placement - top/bottom of list/topic

[SidV]

I used both…

Both are awesome

The official has got more options for ads, the @michaeld’s one is only for adsense.

The official do not break Discourse.
I do not use Michael’s now. But do not break my discourse either.

For ad placement, read the info for each plugin, both are great.

[dandv (Dan Dascalescu)]

@SidV

Both are awesome

I don’t know about that. Michael’s plugin doesn’t support responsive ads and can’t show ads only on topics.

The official plugin doesn’t support responsive ads either, and can’t support displaying ads only to anonymous users, unless you hack the CSS to hide the ad (which means logged in users still waste time and bandwidth downloading the ad).

[eldy]

this issue still exist?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

The official plugin doesn’t support responsive ads either, and can’t support displaying ads only to anonymous users

I don’t think this is true any more @neil?

[neil (Neil Lalonde)]

The official plugin supports AdSense responsive ads. To only show ads to anonymous, you can add trust level 0 (i.e. everyone) to the setting “no ads for group”.