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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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.
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.
Occasionally, if it is something I am interested in.
Yes, because I was wondering what kind of scam it is, and because the advertiser had to pay money for my click.
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.
I SHOVED A FLUTE UP IT
site-native ads, yes.
other ones that aren’t even closely relevant then no.
I saw an ad on Facebook years ago for a Distant World’s concert happening in my area. I clicked and bought tickets. This was the only time I’ve knowingly clicked an ad.
Yes. It was on Sync for Lemmy.
It had a picture of John Lithgow and was mentioning art.
It turns out it was for his show on PBS about taking art classes in LA.
It was delightful.
There used to be ads that took the form of games. I remember I’d be randomly browsing something like Marapets or some other Neopets knockoff and they’d show ads you can play, like I remember one where you could play as someone on a fourth story balcony dropping water balloons onto passerbies, and I’d think “wait, is this one of the site’s games? Will I get myself points from this game to pay off Jhudora with?”
Now ads are just boring. Heck, where did all the i-frame veterans go?
Adnausem clicks on all ads because that is how you mess your digital footprint.
Nope. And I remember a time when there weren’t any ads. Or images for that matter. And I had to run software in DOS. Things are definitely both better and worse, now.
I clicked an ad for roblox in 2012 when i was a child. Probably the only ad i don’t regret clicking on, accidentally or not.
I think I also might have clicked an ad on kongregate around that same time period.
Now I use an adblocker, so I can’t really click on ads even if i wanted to
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?
Probably. I’d like to think of myself as a person who haven’t but having spent over 20 years on internet I feel like such a statement would almost certainly be wrong.
Lots of times, sometimes they are quite accurate to what I am interested in thanks to spyware. If I haven’t installed blocker yet or it broke and I see these nice shoes or whatever so I click click click
