[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 WordPress.org, 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