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What was the last time you clicked on an ad?
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Yes, people click on ads. We're in bubble here on lemmy. Most of people here invest time and energy to actively avoid ads. Typical internet user doesn't have such a strong aversion to ads. They will watch TV ads, listen to ads on the radio, watch YT without adblock (can you even imagine?) and yes, click on ads they see on websites. Ads are like spam, it's cheap to show them and you only need 0.0001% of users to actually buy something to turn profit. With current tracking levels and ad targeting it's more effective than this. The entire internet is basically a ad pushing machine. Quite disgusting to be honest.