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.
Same for me, on occasion I’ve discovered decent games by clicking on the ads on mobile. Since I know it’s going to open up the play store, it doesn’t feel as sketchy.
However, the vast majority of the time I back out after taking a look at the game page.
I was thinking “no” but, yeah, Steam Store front page. Almost every time I launch, I take a moment to see what’s good today.
But apart from that, I can’t think of a time though it’s probably happened once or twice over the years. At best, some brand’s ad looks like a good idea, so I start searching the market,and if I buy, you can be guaranteed it ended up being from a competitor.
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
“we have a billion people interested in our ad campaign!”
“wait why is it coming from just one ip?”
What can I say. He really got me. 🤷🏼♂️
Spoiler
Once.
It was in gmail (I think gmail used to have text ads?), for a local job, in my field, right when I was about to quit.
I got the job.
Nope, I’ll even specifically avoid companies that I see or hear excessive ads for. When I needed to change car insurance a while back and had a list of options going, I immediately removed all the ones I could remember seeing advertising for.
Two reasons:
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I have an unhealthy hatred of advertising.
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They’re spending an absurd amount of money on digital spam as opposed to making their product/service better or cheaper. Some percentage of what you pay for in the product is to cover their advertising campaigns, and I prefer that percentage be as small as possible.
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If you’re talking about ads that look like ads, it’s happened maybe twice since the mid 90s. But who knows how many ads disguised as content that any of us has ever clicked on?
Yeah that’s why I choose my words carefully. Ads disguised as download buttons have existed basically as long as piracy has. lol
🏴☠️Aaarrrgh matey, choose this chest. Thar be plenty o’ booty to be had. 🦜
Yeah, I click them Steam sale ads all the time.
Yeah I’m usually way more willing to click ads that are for something on the website I’m already on than for something somewhere else
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.
I saw one about lonely moms available in my area and clicked because I’m an orphan.
I apologize in advance for that joke and I’m about to donate $100 to a local charity that works with orphans. If you laughed, I encourage you to do the same so we can turn my horrid, inexcusable joke into something positive.
Ha nice follow through!
I once saw an advertisement that is negative towards house building company, links to a news article.
Only a moron let’s a free iPad get away especially since I was that days randomly selected winner. Anyways I have a new social security number now.
Oh great, that means you can be selected again, right?
Whenever I have to use the Android Play Store and I search for the exact thing that I want and the first result is an ad for that thing, I click on the ad instead of the same item in the natural results just to cost them money.
Huh, I used to do the opposite on Google search results, to avoid Google being rewarded. But I also like your thinking, depending on whose advertising, I might choose to hit their pocket instead lol
That seems backward, do you like the game or not
I don’t download games, I mostly have to install stuff from work.
Ah, I assumed it was something you were downloading out of a want rather than a need.
Yeah, I should have specified. I really only use the Play Store for work or fast food if I’m on the road. Otherwise I stick to F-Droid.
Yes. Sometimes I click the ads of companies I hate so they have to spend more money not selling me something.
It probably means I will see more of their ads, but I usually opt out of personalized ads so maybe not so much?
Depends on what you classify as an ad.
Ive started watching the series Long Way Round, which is essentially an ad for BMW.
I click on steam sale ads for video games.
When local stores have sales, they have ads for those sales on their websites which I click on from time to time - recently I was shopping for a soundbar and a local store was having a sale on soundbars so I clicked that ad on their website.
When ads aren’t too intrusive, and they’re relevant, and they’re not peddling garbage I don’t have too much of a problem with them
All the time. If it’s a company I dislike and I see them advertising on Google, I know I’m costing them money. Google uses an auction house system for ads, so common words can have a lot of competition. You could be making that company pay a dollar or more for that click, and at the same time contribute to a headache for their marketers who are keeping a close eye on their cost per click and customer acquisition costs.
Yeah, google wins in this scenario too, but there’s not much I can do about that.
Yes, but its rare, and even more rare will I buy something.
If I see an ad for something that im actually in the market for, and I want to support the person that runs the page or presents the video, and I know that the person is going to get a kickback if I decide to spend money, then yeah, I’ll click their referral link and shop around.
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