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Ads overview

Ads and sponsorship

Ads stay manual, route-limited, and dormant until the product is explicitly ready.

This page explains the current placement policy as the product exists today. Open Model Lab uses a manual-first AdSense path, keeps Supporter browsing ad-free on eligible routes, and fails closed until ads are explicitly enabled.

Current model

Free browsing may show ads on selected browse, search, and safe concept-page surfaces when ads are explicitly enabled. Supporter removes ads where ads are eligible and adds the convenience features described on the Pricing page.

When advertising is enabled, Open Model Lab uses manually placed Google AdSense units only. The current architecture is manual-first and does not rely on Auto ads as the primary mode.

The intent is simple: ads can support public browsing without interrupting the live science-learning interaction. Before approval and explicit activation, the ad system stays dormant and renders nothing.

Allowed placements

Home page
Concepts
Subject directory and subject pages
Topic directory
Topic pages
Guided collections landing page
Search results page
Concept pages only in clearly separated non-interactive zones

Protected learning surfaces

Simulation stage, controls, graphs, equations, and time rails
Interactive concept lab container and post-bench study cards
Compare mode, prediction mode, and worked-example flows
Challenge pages and challenge interactions
Share tools, pricing, account, auth, and developer harness pages
About, billing, privacy, terms, contact, support, and other sensitive trust pages

Provider note

Google AdSense is the current provider path when ads are turned on. Local testing may show only a provider request without a filled creative, and missing config keeps each placement collapsed instead of rendering a broken shell.

If advertising is disabled, unapproved, or unconfigured, Open Model Lab renders no live ad unit and does not load the AdSense bootstrap on ineligible pages. The free tier still keeps access to core concepts, simulations, tracks, and standard challenge mode.

Read Privacy for the related data note, or use Contact.