Chris027 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 I see this has been discussed - Bluto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 (edited) 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. 🙄 Edited November 13, 2019 by Bluto Chris027 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 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. Bluto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited November 13, 2019 by Bluto Maxxius and Chris027 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddog107_merged Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Seems like a good idea if its such an easy change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 I've logged an issue for this and we'll look at getting it changed for 4.5 🙂 IPCommerceFan, zyx, DesignzShop and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyx Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 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)? 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 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 👍 TDBF, Bluto, Chris027 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluto Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Just now, Rikki said: No need to hold your breath - it's already fixed and merged into the next release 👍 Excellent. Thank YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris027 Posted March 19, 2020 Author Share Posted March 19, 2020 Adblock Plus is now blocking content with "data-role=sidebarAd" Please work your magic on this as well. I'm very thankful of what's been done already concerning this overall issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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