Giving the user ad options

Against TOS?

[Tonearm]

Would Google allow you to do something like this:

Select the number of ads per page:
¦ 1 ¦ 2 ¦ 3 ¦ 4 ¦ 5 ¦

?

- Grant

[Jenstar]

No it is not allowed, since that would be drawing attention to the ads.

[Powdork]

An interesting idea might be to allow the user to select the layout of your pages with the only difference in the layouts being the ad format and position or color, etc.

[jardin]

I saw a site once, that had only ads for people using Internet Explorer (I thought it was sort of clever), so people would try to switch to FireFox or at least *something else.* And I'm pretty sure they were running AdSense ads on the IE portion of their site.

I wonder if that was allowed?

[whoisgregg]

Which begs the question, can subscribing to a site include the benefit of removing adsense advertisements? Or would that also draw attention to the ads?

[suidas]

Flip that question around:

I'd like to make the ads on Firefox twice as numerous and big, because they're dodging my pop-unders.

Since you can't embed the JS in other JS, you'd have to do it server-side, which would amount to cloaking.

[eaden]

Doing something serverside doesn't mean you are cloaking. For example if you have the ads on a phpbb forum, you can use the IF_LOGGED_IN flags to only show the ads when the user is NOT logged in.

[im286 Deanzhang]

it is not allowed