Hi Guys - I'd love to use the built-in advertisement functionality, but in order to give up the awesome Google Ad Manager reporting capabilities, I need to give my advertisers some benefits. The ability to work around ad blockers would be a major benefit that they would prefer over reporting (given that IPS has almost zero reporting). However, IPS ads are so easy for ad blockers because css classes such as "class="ipsAdvertisement"" are used. If I edit the code, ad blockers don't block the ads. 

In order to make this actually work, we'd need the ability to name the class ourselves or somehow have it be randomly created.

Without this, it's hard to justify using the built-in ad capability.

I see this has been discussed - 

 

 

Exactly 2 years and 1 day... and nothing to help users make money. 

It's not even a hard change but falls on deaf ears.  You're going to have to change it yourself.  IPS is obviously, not going to make the change.  Maybe they're waiting for version 5.  🙄

Hi Bluto - I saw your edit of the template and just tried it. Works pretty good, but it's editing a template and every update risks overwriting it. 

5 minutes ago, Chris027 said:

Hi Bluto - I saw your edit of the template and just tried it. Works pretty good, but it's editing a template and every update risks overwriting it. 

When you upgrade, during the upgrade the upgrader will give you a notice about templates that have changed.  But yes, they'll be overwritten.

Also, I'd advice that all your banners be called something like 87384747.jpg using ad, banner, etc in the names of the images will also flag the adblocker.

I always rename all of my advertisers banners.

Seems like a good idea if its such an easy change. 

I've logged an issue for this and we'll look at getting it changed for 4.5 🙂 

20 minutes ago, Rikki said:

I've logged an issue for this and we'll look at getting it changed for 4.5 🙂 

This would be great. 

I just switched to local ad serving about 5 minutes ago using Bluto's template hack. Works pretty well.

 

58 minutes ago, Rikki said:

I've logged an issue for this and we'll look at getting it changed for 4.5 🙂 

I realise you can't give a set date, but is 4.5 reasonably close (i.e. within the next few months)? 🙂 

6 hours ago, Rikki said:

I've logged an issue for this and we'll look at getting it changed for 4.5 🙂 

Matt said that 5 months ago @Rikki 

Issue has been around for 2 years.

Not holding my breath for this change.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Bluto said:

Matt said that 5 months ago @Rikki 

Issue has been around for 2 years.

Not holding my breath for this change.

No need to hold your breath - it's already fixed and merged into the next release 👍

Just now, Rikki said:

No need to hold your breath - it's already fixed and merged into the next release 👍

Excellent. Thank YOU!

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Please work your magic on this as well. I'm very thankful of what's been done already concerning this overall issue.