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Have you ever clicked on an ad on purpose? (yiffit.net)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Kolanaki@yiffit.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Just as the title says: Have you ever clicked on an ad, knowing it was an ad, on purpose? What ad was it? Why did you click it?

Curious because I realized I have not once in my life clicked on an ad shown online on purpose. Accidentally, and being tricked into clicking the wrong thing sure; never with intent though.

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[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Nope, I'll even specifically avoid companies that I see or hear excessive ads for. When I needed to change car insurance a while back and had a list of options going, I immediately removed all the ones I could remember seeing advertising for.

Two reasons:

  1. I have an unhealthy hatred of advertising.

  2. They're spending an absurd amount of money on digital spam as opposed to making their product/service better or cheaper. Some percentage of what you pay for in the product is to cover their advertising campaigns, and I prefer that percentage be as small as possible.

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're talking about ads that look like ads, it's happened maybe twice since the mid 90s. But who knows how many ads disguised as content that any of us has ever clicked on?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's why I choose my words carefully. Ads disguised as download buttons have existed basically as long as piracy has. lol

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Once.

It was in gmail (I think gmail used to have text ads?), for a local job, in my field, right when I was about to quit.

I got the job.