Clarity Ad Blocker for WordPress Announced, Receives Mixed Reactions
Stanislav Khromov announced Clarity, a plugin for hiding obtrusive banners, via Twitter and the Advanced WordPress (AWP) Facebook group today. It was first pushed to WordPress.org around a year ago, but the developer seems to be just now publicizing it. The Clarity website describes its mission as: “Ads, upsells, and analytics banners have been running rampant in our WordPress dashboards for too long. It’s time to make them go away, once and for all.” Clarity does not come with a settings screen. Once users active it, it attempts to hide banners and other notifications falling outside of its “acceptable ads policy,” which is currently a draft that Khromov has encouraged feedback on. This policy covers plugins that ask for reviews, inform users of discounts, or prompt them to upgrade to a commercial version. The plugin’s goal is to hide those notices unless they are: Shown only on an options page that belongs to the plugin or theme and nowhere else.Shown only to Administrator role users.Not intrusive or distracting.Not displayed in the main column, but rather in an “aside.” The plugin does include a link on the plugins management screen to report unwanted banners. It leads to a pre-filled issued template…
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