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Ask HN: Do you click on Ads?
Personally I'm surprised how huge the Internet Advertisement industry is!
- kushagrawal 14y ago
- kaolinite 14y agoI click on a couple per year perhaps. It's a rare occasion because I usually have adblock on.
- pkhamre 14y agoI never click an ad.
- DanBC 14y agoI never block ads. I click ads if they're relevant to my interests. An ad is much more likely to get a click if it's a plain text link, on a page that I like. There are some exceptions - Unsolicited Bulk Email is never opened. It's deleted unread. (If it gets past the filters.) I never click anything with sound, or flashing, or scrolling etc.
- cstross 14y agoI hate advertising with a fiery, livid passion, and want the advertising industry to die because all advertising tends towards the state of spam; it's about stealing precious seconds of your life to make you do something you don't want to do. Yes, we will then need to find a new way to pay for content, and there may be less of it: but given the prevalence of content farms and SEO junk on the internet today, I think that would be a net win. (Yes, my blog is currently getting north of 2500 spams a day and my original email account is flooded out by regular joe jobs of up to 60,000 spams a day. Why do you ask?)