Finally breaking my Lurker status - Hi, everyone!
I found a nifty feature inside the Geeklog CMS that allows the user to disable individual blocks at will (IE prevent certain page sections from appearing). My Adsense code is contained within one such block rather than hardcoded into the theme/layout files, effectively allowing the user to disable ads if they choose to do so.
This suited me just fine, as it runs alongside the open-source philosophy of the project that the site centres around - but I thought I'd better double-check with Google.
I wanted to let my readers know that they could disable the ads if they wanted to - no point in pushing adverts at people if they're expressly not interested.
Google's reply was disheartening - no modifications, no letting users disable ads.
I mailed back telling them that I'd have to write an Adsense plugin or heavily alter the CMS itself, and what about if I kept the option but didn't post the message?
They said that would be fine.
This information might be redundant, but I thought you guys using Geeklog would like to know - you probably don't have to worry about the CMS allowing users to disable your block containing the adverts. If still in doubt, it's probably best to hardcode them into your template files.
Hope somebody finds this useful.
