Every couple weeks, while playing solitaire on my phone.
It's never intentional. Fuck mobile ads
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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Quite often:
- To support the site the ad is placed on
- To cost money to the ad's sponsor if I don't like them
Iโve clicked on ads (primarily Instagram actually) because it is an ad that is for a product or service I was actually looking for but didnโt have the time/knowledge to actually go searching for it
I accidentally clicked in a ad in the past week. Does it count?
Maybe about a year ago. It was an actual offer from a site I knew already and was too lazy to go and check it manually. Never making that mistake again as for months afterwards every ad I got was from this site. I now use adblock on my phone as well so I don't see anything but I bet I'd still get ads from that site if I didn't.
Willingly, maybe 4 years ago.
Never since I installed a program that prevents me from doing so by accident.
I might click on some sponsored results in Google search if it was the result I was looking for either way.
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 sometimes click on Instagram-Ads because some of them are so unhinged that I have to find out what they are about?
Ublock origin.
Sometimes I hate click on ads from organizations I don't like so they have to pay a couple of cents. ๐ฌ
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Intentionally? Maybe 10 years ago.
True story, it was a "get a free iPad" ad, and I kid you not, I ended up getting an ipad (with some effort and a few emails). It was an ad in an app.
Literally the 10,000th customer.
Recently had one for a world of Warcraft private server which seemed cool
Iโve been on the internet since before it had ads and have never once intentionally clicked on one. These days I always have at least one ad blocker running, so I never see them.