Here is a very interesting old post about ads by SBAllen.

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wackyteen posted...
I want to know who the fuck is clicking ads.

Even when I wasn't using an adblocker, I wasn't clicking ads.

I can't think of any online ad I ever looked at and thought "i want to click this". Any ads I have clicked have been by accident or out of sheer curiosity of price point. I definitely haven't spent money on a product i saw in an online ad banner/pop-up ad/whatever. Maybe down the road when I saw it in a store, but definitely not by clicking the ad itself.

I have bought a couple of those youtube sponsorship things, but that is at least tied to supporting the creator.
Yeah. People always say "they must be making money if they keep doing it" but idk if I will ever actually understand how most online ads have influence on people's purchasing decisions.
Let's-a go! Okey dokey!