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Posted by julienreszka 1 day ago

Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad

I really wonder who clicks ads
19 points | 23 commentspage 2
aristofun 23 hours ago|
Everyone outside our professional community.

Only people who make sausages don’t eat them. Only people who create news don’t trust them.

skyberrys 21 hours ago||
This makes me wonder why the AI economy is considered a bubble when we already did an advertising supported internet as a bubble. The whole ad supported internet seemed to have such low drivers of revenue to the advertisers (at least as far as I can tell without people clicking on ads), compared to today's success with AI subscriptions.
VirusNewbie 13 hours ago||
I do all the time now, buying stuff for my wife! Sweaters, lingerie, etc. because it's usually from brands she's been browsing and they target me.
Bender 21 hours ago||
I really wonder who clicks ads

Not I. No idea.

seattle_spring 9 hours ago||
Many people haven't, but thanks to the wide world of cross-site tracking, frequent shopping cards etc, your purchases can still be attributed to ads you've seen (and even billboards!)
Alexmax84 20 hours ago||
I don't think anybody does anymore as sick of seeing ads every where.
throw310822 1 day ago||
Me neither. I'm also surprised at how basic they are: they either show me the last product category that I've searched for (for weeks even after I completed the purchase) or random stuff.
paulcole 18 hours ago||
I think everything I'm wearing right now came from the result of me clicking an ad.

I like clicking ads! I work and I have money to spend on things I like.

d--b 1 day ago||
yes it's a bit of a mystery to me as well, especially knowing that most of them are scams.

There are 2 things I don't understand.

1. Most online ads are illegal in EU, cause it's illegal to lie/mislead in an ad in the EU. The Tai Chi ads, the water pressure thing or the breezamax scams are all I see on Youtube, yet, they're obviously fake, and still running strong. How is it that they're not taken down?

2. The tai chi ad campaign must be costing millions of dollars. Everyone I know is seeing these fifteen times a day. Is anyone actually paying for that crap? Shouldn't Youtube increase the price of ads, so that they make more money and actually push scammers off the platform?

It doesn't make any sense

haute_cuisine 1 day ago|
Will expensive ads instead push out the honest products with fair prices? Only casinos/betting/high margin will be able to afford expensive ads.
Cech1337 16 hours ago|
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