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What was the last time you clicked on an ad? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[โ€“] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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