WordPress mobile ads

This is rather off-topic, but maybe not all owners of WordPress-hosted blogs are aware of it: since a few days, the mobile version of their sites (which displays when accessed from a phone, or at least from an Android one) displays a small ad-widget by default. I’ve noticed this on Vieux Girondin, Quomodocumque, What’s New, T.Gowers’s blog, etc… Here’s what it looks like:

If this is not the desired behavior (and some of the ads I’ve seen might not be what the owners like to be associated with; the one above is not the worst…) it is probably easy to disable the plugin in charge of the mobile theme (but I can’t check; although my own blog is WordPress-powered, it is hosted at ETH and doesn’t have this plugin).
Also, unfortunately, I don’t know how to check the mobile version from a desktop or laptop computer (presumably one needs to tell the browser to pretend to be a mobile version, but I’ve never learnt how to do that…).

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Kowalski

I am a professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich since 2008.