A discussion is held to compare the Google AdSense plugin by @michaeld and the official Advertising plugin for Discourse. dandv asks for a comparison of the two plugins, highlighting key features such as not breaking Discourse, support for non-logged in users, responsive ads, and ad placement. SidV mentions that both plugins are great, but dandv points out limitations in both plugins, including lack of responsive ads support and displaying ads to anonymous users only.
However, codinghorror questions the accuracy of these limitations, and neil confirms that the official plugin now supports AdSense responsive ads and allows displaying ads only to anonymous users through trust level settings.
So there are two (at least, that I know of) plugins for displaying ads:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-adsense-plugin/11763
Has anyone used both, and can compare? In particular,
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.
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).
this issue still exist?
No creo que esto sea cierto ya, @neil.
El plugin oficial admite anuncios responsivos de AdSense. Para mostrar anuncios solo a usuarios anónimos, puedes agregar el nivel de confianza 0 (es decir, todos) a la configuración “sin anuncios para el grupo”.