ChrisW Hi there, thanks for reaching out. Rather than remove the placeholders manually, you can simply turn off AI placements entirely from your Ezoic dashboard by navigating to Ezoic Ads > Ad Types > Auto Insert Ads and toggling AI Placeholders and Enhanced Placeholders to Off.
Alternatively, you can set a limit to the number of ads that show on each page based on the length/word count of the page. You can review and set these rules by navigating to Ezoic Ads > Ad Restrictions > Max Ads Per Page and turning the feature On.
I hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any further questions regarding this matter.