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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On my devices I don’t see ads because PiHole and uBlock… But this week while using someone else’s device, and I saw an Ad, I tried to click the ‘x’ button, but accidentally clicked the ad because they make the button tiny.
Screw ads.
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
You mean like… oh purpose!?
There was a time long ago I did that to help them with their business. I’ve learned a lot since then and now I don’t do that anymore.
Did you stop because it affects your algorithm, it costs them money, or another reason?
Companies need money to survive. Not every company should survive though.
It is like mosquitos - I bear them no malice, and they are part of the food web too. I still swat them if then bite me. I am also okay with mosquito-cide on a mass scale.
Symbiosis and Mutualism are great, but advertising as it is practiced 99.99999% of the time today is Parasitic, and I don’t want to encourage it any further.
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…
I rarely click on them. If I like what I see I’ll manually Google the product since I don’t trust the link they give me.
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.
I actually bought a cheap laser mouse off a banner ad once back when you could still find mice with balls in them. I think it was like 15 bucks, arrived no problem, and my credit card didn’t get stolen, so it was a win I guess?
Might’ve been the last time I clicked an ad, and it was 20+ years ago. Oh wait no my news app a few years ago had a top made out of gold being sold for about $150 as an executive desk toy. I checked it out because I was sure it would link to a new satire site like the onion. Turns out it was real and my news app thought I was really into gold tops for a few weeks.
Bought a sweater I saw in an ad. Like a 70s style one, like it was the sweater that inspired both Tron and the Twister board game. Hasn’t arrived yet but I’m hopeful it isn’t complete trash.
I was there in the late 90s, when hitting the wrong website (or a good one on a bad day) would spawn oodles of pop-ups and pop-unders. And any attempt to close even one of these windows would spawn 10 more. Rinse and repeat until these ads brought not only your browser to a grinding halt, but also your entire operating system, forcing a hard restart of your entire computer.
The moment an adblocking add-in was made for Phoenix (later Firefox), I installed it and never looked back.
I feel for those websites who rely on ad revenue to exist, but that well was thoroughly poisoned for me long before you (likely) ever existed. I will never permit a browser to exist on any of my systems without an ad-blocker of some kind, and I will configure all of my clients to have the same protections in place.
Every time my parents used the computer, even if it was only for a few minutes, it ended up looking like this
The moment an adblocking add-in was made for Phoenix (later Firefox), I installed it and never looked back.
Oh wow, I had totally forgotten that it started as phoenix. I only remember that name because the first time I downloaded the browser, the homepage read “Phoenix is now Firebird”.
Been a really long time I have actually clicked on an actual ad, unless we’re including closing the pop up thing every time you boot up Steam. I couldn’t remember the last ad I actually clicked on if we’re not including the Steam thing.
Sometimes I hate click on ads from organizations I don’t like so they have to pay a couple of cents. 😬
Same energy as that time antifa bought out all the tickets of a hate concert with fake accounts so the concert was empty and penniless.
Recently had one for a world of Warcraft private server which seemed cool
Every couple weeks, while playing solitaire on my phone.
It’s never intentional. Fuck mobile ads
