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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I have purposely clicked on ads for some video games. It isn’t worth the click even then since you end up on some marketing railroad that doesn’t lead directly to the steam page.
Does it count if it was for a shitty company and I just wanted to drive up their ad costs? If so, yes. Otherwise, no. lol
Yeah, I click them Steam sale ads all the time.
Turns out when the ads are for things I want, at good prices and without all the nag and malware, they’re beneficial for both consumer and advertiser. Advertising used to be a useful tool for both parties.
But enshitification must continue.
to provide an answer from the advertiser’s perspective, they are very aware that the Click Through Rate (CTR) is incredibly low, as corroborated by the comments, actually measured at about 0.2%.
because it’s so small and potentially difficult to track, other metrics besides CTR are used alongside by marketers, including total impressions, conversion rates between other channels and, yes, tracing your browsing history by way of cookies and other invasive digital tools.
Sorry can’t hear you over the size of my GIGANTIC PENIS
Your comment implies that your GIGANTIC PENIS makes a GIGANTIC NOISE, and that has me intrigued.
Sure, because it was my friend’s computer and I thought it would be funny if he got more pop-ups for boner pills and also I was 12.
I clicked on a porn add when I was a child. It shattered my world in a very good way
Yeah, saw a neat looking cat toy in an ad, and bought it.
It was an ad for a motorized ball about as big as a golf ball, lights up and kinda rolls/jumps around on its own as long as the cats nudge it. Eventually sleeps when they stop playing with it.
It is exactly as advertised, but the cats are only kinda interested in it. We still recharge it and put it out for them occasionally.
the cats are only kinda interested in it
Have you tried giving them the box it came in?
No. Ads are essentially scams.
