Zero Ad Network

Earn from the time Zero Ad Network subscribers spend on your website. In return, they get your pages without ads, cookie banners or popups.

In short

• Subscribers pay one monthly membership, called Freedom, and use the Zero Ad Network browser extension.

• This plugin recognises them on your website, and cleans up your pages for them. Everyone else sees your website as usual.

• You earn from subscribers’ measured time on your website. You don’t need a paid membership to take part or to test.

You need a free Zero Ad Network account and your Publisher ID.

What subscribers get

On front-end pages, for verified Freedom subscribers, the plugin:

• removes ads from supported advertising plugins

• removes or hides supported cookie consent banners, marketing popups and newsletter dialogs

• removes matching advertising, consent and marketing scripts from the page HTML

• opens the posts and pages you include, through Paid Memberships Pro or WP-Members

Everyone else keeps your normal website. A missing or invalid membership token never unlocks anything. Existing WordPress membership permissions still apply.

Admin, AJAX, REST API and JSON requests are never changed.

The plugin uses WordPress hooks, HTML filtering and CSS. Coverage depends on your theme, plugins and their versions. Check your real pages and scripts: hiding a banner doesn’t prove all tracking has stopped.

Include paid content

Skip this if you don’t sell access.

• Edit a post or page you want subscribers to read.

• In the Freedom access box, check Include this content with Freedom.

• Save, then clear your page caches.

Offer your base subscription content, or a custom selection. Anything you don’t select keeps its restrictions.

• Private, draft, password-protected and other post types are always excluded.

• The plugin doesn’t create website memberships, grant purchases or bill anyone.

• Other paywalls and custom paid features need a custom integration. See Custom included access.

An already clean website, with no paywall, doesn’t need to include anything.

Supported plugins

The plugin includes rules for these plugins, and more:

• Advertising: Ads For WP, Ad Inserter, Advanced Ads, WP Quads, AdRotate and Google Site Kit’s AdSense filters.

• Cookie banners: Cookiebot, Real Cookie Banner, Complianz, CookieYes, Cookie Notice and GDPR by Trew Knowledge.

• Marketing popups: Popup Maker, Popup Maker WP, OptinMonster, MailOptin Lite, Hustle and Thrive Leads.

• Included paid content: Paid Memberships Pro and WP-Members.

These are targeted integrations, not a guarantee for every version or custom placement. The full compatibility reference lists detection rules and limits, including the unconfirmed Raptive/AdThrive rule and the difference between Convert Pro and Convert Plus.

Page caches and CDNs

Requests carrying Better-Web-Token must reach WordPress. Set every CDN, proxy, server cache and WordPress page cache to skip both cache reads and writes for those requests. Forward the header to WordPress.

Once the plugin runs, it marks those responses private and non-cacheable, even for invalid or empty tokens. The header alone never grants access. The plugin can’t change a page that an upstream cache or an early cache drop-in already served.

Open Zero Ad Network > Page cache setup in WordPress for step-by-step rules. The page-cache guide has the same rules and a test checklist. If your host can’t bypass the cache for token requests, turn off HTML page caching on participating pages.

Earnings

• Earnings follow funded subscriber time and each subscriber’s funding preferences. There is no fixed payment per visit or minute.

• Test visits earn nothing.

• View earnings and set up payouts in your Zero Ad Network account. The plugin doesn’t collect payments or process payouts.

See how publisher earnings work for the split, fees and transfer requirements.