[Plugin: Easy AdSense] Negative comments

  • I saw quite a few negative comments about the plugin here regarding its ad space sharing. Although I don’t usually reply to comments on forums unless I can spot at least a hint of constructive criticism or a suggestion to improve, I thought I would post my take on the negative comments:

    1. The fraction of ad space to be shared can be configured. After you set it to 0% (in V2.57+), if you see my ads showing up *ever*, please reply to this post or contact me.
    2. If you want to remove the ad sharing code completely, here is how. Find and change the Monte Carlo function to the following:

      function mc($mc, $ad, $size=false) {
    return $ad ;
 }

      This change will ensure that regardless of what you set as your share fraction (the value of $mc), your ad (the string in $ad) will be returned and displayed.

    3. Since the plugin in open source, you can always edit it to suit your purpose. It is not that difficult. Here is a resource that I used when I started my plugin development efforts late last year.
    4. Or you can locate an earlier version (V2.4) here. Ad space sharing was implemented starting V2.5, released on June the 12th. It was indicated in the readme.txt as change log during the release. And it was highlighted on this forum and in the FAQ about a week later.
    5. Please spend a few minutes to read the FAQ, and to look at the information on the plugin admin page. I spent a lot of time making these resources as informative, comprehensive and readable as I knew how.
    6. If you’d rather see my plugins removed from the listing here on www.remarpro.com, it can be arranged. Please let me know. Judging from the emails and support requests, my feeling is that there is a silent majority here who like my plugins, but I could be wrong.
      – Thanks,
      – Manoj
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  • “the guy is placing cookies in your site amazon ebay etc DONT use this plugin. take a closer look at your source code”

    What is this guy talking about?

    Version 2.86 gives this error when I try to replace the code with the one you give in the first post.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting T_FUNCTION in /wp-content/plugins/easy-adsenser/easy-adsenser.php on line 428

    Hi manojtd and everyone here!

    I love this plug and all the rest of yours. The only thing I don’t know about it is

    “HOW TO DEFULT MY AD INSTEAD OF YOURS”

    IN OTHER WORDS WHERE I HAVE TO GO TO CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT SETTING TO MY VIA FTP SO ALL THE NEW USERS BLOGS AUTOMATICALLY SHOW MY AD WITHOUT HAVING TO ENTER IT MANUALLY IN EACH BLOG.

    THANKS,
    KIM
    MY EMAIL
    [email protected]
    IN CASE YOU CAN SEND ME THE INFO.

    Thread Starter manojtd

    (@manojtd)

    This post might help: Modifying Easy Adsense Defaults

    I was happy with this plugin until today and have to clarify some things for both arguments.

    FOR:
    The author clearly states that he uses ad sharing. The amount of sharing is controlled by the percentage value you place in the configuration.

    At face value there is nothing suspect because the author has provided full disclosure.

    AGAINST:
    After setting the ad sharing to 0% clicks are still being diverted to his account. Also, the function to add the easy adsense blocks to feed, even when disabled continues to add his own publisher ID to the feed.

    Ultimately this author is stealing clicks. While he does provide the option to disable ad sharing, on closer inspection, he is stealing clicks and attempting to add his own ads into your RSS feed.

    Totally dishonest and should be reported. Unfortunately I had recommended this plugin to several people but will have to retract the recommendation and lose some credibility because of it.

    I like your plugin, but for some reason when I activate it, any post that I have that contains video is gone once your plugin is activated. When I deactivate the plugin the video comes back. Do you know what I can do so when I activate your plugin that I don’t loose the video in my other posts?

    Thanks!

    Lawrence

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