Sean

Okay, I have edited this response because I have found what my problem was and once again I am delighted to be connected with Advanced ads.

There must be some geographical restriction to your site either through my ISP or your server that is refusing connections from GDPR countries because as soon as I connected to a VPN in the United States, I got it to connect. Strangely enough it ONLY worked on a US VPN connection and NOT any in Europe. Please look into this if you can.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Sean.

It seems to be when I get to c.wpadvancedads.com this is where the timeout happens I get:

c.wpadvancedads.com’s server IP address could not be found.
If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

it just will not go any further and I get “page cannot be found” I have tried different browsers, different computers, different internet connections at this point and I am afraid I am throwing the towel in here. This is an issue with Advanced Ads and not with AdSense or my site. The developer needs to keep in touch with their plugins. The fact that the server IP address cannot be found indicates to me that wherever c.wpadvancedads.com is hosted is problematic.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Sean. Reason: addition
• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Sean. Reason: addendum
• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Sean.

So after uninstalling and then reinstalling advanced ads I am encountering the same issue, I have now uninstalled it for the last time. It’s always been fairly unreliable in fairness, sometimes it just seems to stop working at random. No point keeping it at this stage. Better off with custom HTML widget I think.

Sorry for the late response, yes I purged the cache but I still get the same issue. It’s odd because ads were showing on my site for the longest time, there are no issues in my ad-sense account but advanced ads just doesn’t seem to want to work anymore. When I try to connect it ad-sense account it takes me to the allow ad-sense prompt then just times out. I am going to completely uninstall advanced ads and reinstall to see if it helps. If not I think I will just have to leave advanced ads uninstalled permanently

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Sean.

I don’t use any plugin. In cache levels in settings I have set to 0. But I don’t think cache was the issue either. Now it seems ads are not showing across my sites at all and according to the ad sense account there are no violations.

This is the thing that is wrecking my head. Up near the logo, is a widget that is part of the theme template that never gave issues before. This widget has advanced ads applied to it yet my ads are just simply not showing.

Autoads code was inserted several times by the advanced ads plugin, I never inserted it manually so advanced ads must have done that. But I never get errors regarding that. I have the adsense only in a widget at the top of my page beside my site logo, it shows ads on certain pages but I can’t see them unless I clear the cache every single time. I just have caching unselected in the main settings.