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?
I might click on some sponsored results in Google search if it was the result I was looking for either way.
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’ve clicked retargeting ads a few times, if they’re offering me an abandoned cart coupon (“finish your order at our store and save 10%”). I’ve worked in ad tech in the past, and retargeting ads (ads that show products you’ve previously viewed or expressed an interest in) have extremely high clickthrough rates.
I saw an ad in Instagram reels around a week ago for a Chinese company that makes big LED signs like you see at the front of stores like Safeway or Best Buy or whatever. Not interested in the product, but I was intrigued because the guy in the ad was Chinese but had a Texan accent. Turns out he uses a different accent in each of his ad videos. That was amusing. I did click the ad to see the quality of the product.
Turns out he uses a different accent in each of his ad videos.
Politicians do this too. I will never not laugh at Hillary Clinton doing a southern accent or Putin popping a gasket trying to speak English.
This is the video I saw: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0gPnVluYL7/ (I swear my comment isn’t an ad lol). I thought that was just the way he talks, but then I watched his other videos and he does so many other accents. They actually seem like decent quality products.
I don’t mind ads that are unique in some way, and not produced by a marketing agency that seems to use the same approach for all their clients (like car ads).
Recently had one for a world of Warcraft private server which seemed cool
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 :(
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.
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 don’t think I’ve ever intentionally clicked an ad, with the very very infrequent exception of product results that come up in searches. It’s literally never been to buy the product, though. It’s to see if I’m interested in doing more shopping around. Ads are never for the best priced or highest quality product, but if it’s something you’ve never looked into before they can be informative, and it’s easy to access.
But since I started running a pihole years ago, I don’t even do that, because it gets blocked when I click it. Rightly so, it was a bad strategy anyway.
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.
Never since I installed a program that prevents me from doing so by accident.
I rarely see them, have never clicked one.
I suspect very few people do.
My girlfriend asked me to whitelist her device on our home network so we can see those on Google as « she needs them to do shopping » Edit: typo
Lol ?!? My girlfriend did no such thing! (My boyfriend didn’t either!)
Tell yours to use more small local shops, for the sake of the environment. Honestly it isn’t tough to shop without ads that steal your money, credit card, and identity.
Sorry my autocorrect fucked the sentence 😅 it swapped “my” with you”
Ha! Here I was thinking it was some sort of garbled “your mum” joke.
Nah dude, I never understood why some people get their kicks by being nasty online :)
Thankyou for restoring my faith in you, mate. I hope the girlfriend shopping issue works itself out (perhaps she should use her phone hotspot to connect her shopping machine if she wants to be scammed? I use mine for some stuff on occasion, if and as necessary, and my boyfriend and other housemates are thus not affected) and I hope the rest of your weekend is excellent.
I wish you a very nice weekend to you as well!
Just to add some extra detail, apparently if you look for clothes/shoes the ads are actually legit in the sense that they will just have a display on g@@gle but, if you do want to purchase, clicking will then take you to H&M or what have you. It has been years that ads are non existent for me so I got used to look for the sites where I want to shop but… she taught me that certain people use ads to discover stuff…
