AdSense removed ordinary subdomain management from the Sites page in March 2023. A blog or app beneath an approved domain can still serve ads, but setup, ads.txt, crawler access, privacy, and page quality all need deliberate verification.
Google retired Matched Content’s own-site recommendation service in March 2022 and converted the format to ads-only Multiplex units. Here is what the grid does now—and what to use when the real goal is related articles.
Sometimes the kindest ad placement is no ad at all. Learn when AdSense page exclusions are enough, when WordPress must suppress manually placed units, and how to verify that the browser really stopped requesting ads.