possible to hide adsense publisher ID?

i have a ton of sites running the same adsense publisher ID, and i am scared that competitors will take my ID and do bad things with it. is there any way to hide it from being visible in the source of the HTML?

 

you cannot hide it, otherwise how would google track clicks and impressions from your sites?

 

That would be cool if we can hide it

 

It's not possible yet but i think it will be in the near future, there are lots of complaints about that

 

You Can,t do that dear

 

It can't be done, because to do that you'd have to modify the code. This is the biggest oversight ever from Google. They are so happy to ban people, but they do nothing at all to protect their publisher ID from illicit use.

 

Maybe he/she means hiding it the code from the user but somehow still enable google to track it.

 

millions of publisher got banned from this google ugly thought... why they are showing our pub id to other Fu*kers ?

 

What you could possibly do is just make it a bit more difficult to get the data, if you took the red section out of your main page into an external javascript file, then included it when you wanted the ad.

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_channel = "xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.digitalpoint.com/ads/ads.php?t=seo";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_color_border = "FF88FF";
google_color_bg = "FFCCFF";
google_color_link = "000066";
google_color_url = "222222";
google_color_text = "222222";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

So you would have in your page

<script type="text/javascript" src="myGoogleAdSetup.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

And myGoogleAdSetup.js would contain

<!--
google_ad_client = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_ad_channel = "xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.digitalpoint.com/ads/ads.php?t=seo";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_color_border = "FF88FF";
google_color_bg = "FFCCFF";
google_color_link = "000066";
google_color_url = "222222";
google_color_text = "222222";
//-->

Should still work, however someone would have to download the seperate myGoogleAdSetup.js file.

Yes its not going to stop anyone who really wants to get at it however it would stop a casual abuser, especially if you used one of the tricks to stop a file being accessed unless its referer was from your site (A trick I use all the time on some of my sites to make the CSS file harder to rip off).

Again I've just done a quick test locally and it works, although one major caveat I have no idea if this would break any Adsense TOS, however your not changing any of their code, and would have a side benefit of being able to be cached client side saving a little bit of download on each page hit.

The trouble with anything on the web, if a web browser can process it you can get access to it.

Jen