I think as a child I got viruses from one of the ads, you know, the ones would put on the side of the site. We had to call in a guy, to clean parents’ computer. I felt really guilty and never touched those ads again.
So Google’s and Meta’s main business are ads. And recently I felt confused. Do people click on ads? Don’t these ads feel phishy to them?
You mean like… oh purpose!?
There was a time long ago I did that to help them with their business. I’ve learned a lot since then and now I don’t do that anymore.
Did you stop because it affects your algorithm, it costs them money, or another reason?
Companies need money to survive. Not every company should survive though.
It is like mosquitos - I bear them no malice, and they are part of the food web too. I still swat them if then bite me. I am also okay with mosquito-cide on a mass scale.
Symbiosis and Mutualism are great, but advertising as it is practiced 99.99999% of the time today is Parasitic, and I don’t want to encourage it any further.
On the rare occasion, I find myself on a mobile website or an app, and I know what I want to tap, what I need to tap, so I move to tap it, and the damn ad loads slower (I swear as intended) which shifts everything on my screen causing me to inadvertently tap it.
I hate that so much, happens on my notifications list also, I go to click something and another notification pops up shifting everything
I don’t believe I’ve ever clicked on an ad without having been tricked into it by an overlay.
I also believe that the ad-bubble market is the biggest scam in Internet history. A whole ecosystem keeps the illusion alive that it actually does something other than exiting.
Ads work, but if you’re on lemmy you’re not the target audience.
Raid shadow legends is profitable.
Accidentally so many times.
goes to press download button HELLO CONTENT LAYOUT SHIFT clicks ad
Learned this one from runescape: You can get around this by always right clicking.
When I try to click the microscopic X to close and it flings me to the app store.
When it says “fuck it, i’m opening myself anyway”
I was there in the late 90s, when hitting the wrong website (or a good one on a bad day) would spawn oodles of pop-ups and pop-unders. And any attempt to close even one of these windows would spawn 10 more. Rinse and repeat until these ads brought not only your browser to a grinding halt, but also your entire operating system, forcing a hard restart of your entire computer.
The moment an adblocking add-in was made for Phoenix (later Firefox), I installed it and never looked back.
I feel for those websites who rely on ad revenue to exist, but that well was thoroughly poisoned for me long before you (likely) ever existed. I will never permit a browser to exist on any of my systems without an ad-blocker of some kind, and I will configure all of my clients to have the same protections in place.
Banner ads, not for a long long time, at least not intentionally.
Last week I needed parts for my snowblower, and Amazon was not helpful finding what I needed, so I googled the info I had. A competitor’s ad appeared as the first result. I was skeptical as hell as I clicked on it - my experience has always been similar to yours - but they had a comprehensive, easy-to-use database of parts, with diagrams, part numbers, in-stock notes, and cost all on the same page. No hacky website, just the right information presented well. Wound up giving them the business.
I guess not everyone is a rabid, cheating, lying SOB. Just many people. Lol
Can’t even remember the last time I’ve even seen an ad lol
This is the way
I don’t even see ads lol
I’d say maybe the once 90s?
I don’t even see ads
I’m blind
You can still hear them though :(
The first and last time I clicked an ad was roughly 20 years ago. I was a child, playing RuneScape and orgazing a clan, and I wanted to post our clan events on a website.
An ad for one.com (a web host, called b-one back then) was shown above the RuneScape client. I thought about it and decided to click it. I landed on the website and made an account, played around a bit, and asked my mom if she’d pay for it. In that moment, not only did I become a paying customer, I became a web developer. The latter of which I still am to this day.
Being exposed to such life-altering artifacts on the daily seems like a terrible idea, so I’ve blocked ads ever since.
On my devices I don’t see ads because PiHole and uBlock… But this week while using someone else’s device, and I saw an Ad, I tried to click the ‘x’ button, but accidentally clicked the ad because they make the button tiny.
Screw ads.
Each instance of an ad has to make a fraction of a penny, right? IDK who would pay anything more than that.
Raycon did finally get me today. I’m in the market for new earbuds. I was looking at consumer reviews and wondered why the buds I hear about ALL THE TIME from YouTubers weren’t on any list I was reading. I did NOT click on a Raycon ad, but did a websearch to find their site and a pile of review sites directly.
Turns out they’re low quality compared to similarly priced alternatives. Almost like they put a substantial amount of their money into content creator endorsements. Color me shocked.
😐 <— my not-shocked face
If you buy anything because a youtuber told you to, you’re a fucking idiot. Every time I see a sponsorship a year later it’s like “yeah you know that raid shadow legends shit? They’re an online casino for kids also they fund IDF genocide” or something of equal caliber.
Like maybe 1 in 800 sponsorships are just upstarts trying to get their foot in the market, the rest are just outright scams or evil as fuck.
It was when I wanted to click a link I was interested in but an ad that had delayed loading covered the link the moment I clicked.
I vomited acid blood the last time that happened to me. It wasn’t an ad but an image loaded causing me to click something else instead.
I watched some trailers on YouTube for upcoming movies. That is probably the most intentional consumption of advertisements I make; I even search them out specifically.
I rarely click on them. If I like what I see I’ll manually Google the product since I don’t trust the link they give me.
