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Do people actually click on ridiculous on-screen ads?
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I'm sure we have all seen the ads...
"Mom discovers treatment that took 20 years off her face! Click here to learn about this revolutionary new treatment!"
"New car insurance that the cops don't want you to know about! $9 a month!"

Seriously, who the hell clicks on this stuff?

And of course the sexy ads for RPGs, whose characters and graphics look absolutely nothing like the advertised woman with the big boobies.

Does anyone here actually look into these random internet ads?
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You're telling me my penis isn't going to grow nineteen inches in three days? :(
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Mine did. I am up to 19 and 1/2.
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I can grow mine in a couple of seconds. Just think about Mila Kunis! Works every time :D
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if nobody was stupid enough to click them, they wouldn't be there!
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They prey on old and impressionable people. Shameful!
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No. I sometimes click on ridiculous poll titles.
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wigsplitz
Believe it or not, the internet is new to some people. My mom has been using a computer for a little while now and still doesn't know you can type whatever the fuck you want into google. She still thinks you have to type in www.(whatever).com to get to a website, and if you don't know the name of the website you want then you're fucked. She also has no clue how to avoid scams (she doesn't necessarily fall for them, she just doesn't know how to discern scam link from good link). I'm sure she probably clicks on dumb ads and I do know if she does google something, she clicks on scam or sponsored links.

She seems to think you have to use proper and exact terminology to google something. She can't comprehend that you can type something as ridiculous as 'why do black people like watermelon' and get results.

My dad is slightly more internet retarded, but he very rarely uses it. He doesn't even know how to shut the computer down, he just unplugs it when he's done.

So, yeah, that's who's clicking on ads. People like that and stupid horny men.....mostly.
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A few years ago, my mom was checking her email when she suddenly started freaking out about a virus. Turned out AOL had just released an update, and there were information bubbles on the screen describing the new features.

"Flutterhigh! Flutterhiiigh! Where did all these viruses come from?!"

"What? What viruses?"

*points at screen with tears in her eyes*

"......"
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wigsplitz
To quote the great DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince...."parents just don't understand"
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Your mom actually calls you "Flutterhigh"?... Strange...
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You thought these weren't our real names? My name is Neuro Neptunian. That's what's listed on my birth certificate!
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Your mom must be a nerd. :P
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Those target the drunk, children, almost legally retarded, and the elderly.
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Are you serious?
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Yeah...
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Damn I had no clue.
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Ridiculous? I could win a motherfucking iPad!
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Aaaaaaaaaaaadblock.
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I one time clicked on one of those "You could win an ipad" ads just to see where it would lead...it only lead to more ads.
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No, do I look like an old lady?
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I enjoy clicking the adds because its good to support honesf businesses. I esoecially enjoy when they rape my poor defenseless wallet.
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I just saw one with a pair of huge knockers asking me to take a quick IQ test, I couldn't resist, I love IQ tests.
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I sometimes click on them - not because I actually care about what it's advertising.. It's obviously a scam. But I don't know, I'm just curious I suppose to see exactly what's behind these ads we get everywhere.

Like you, I wonder how they actually generate profit and nobody would be stupid enough to seriously fall for it.
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Yeah, I am wondering myself. Because there is no way that there is a large enough amount of people that see that you can invest in a once in a lifetime opportunity to become a millionaire or something like that for them to make any money off of it.
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Its usually just stuff related to sites I've gone to. I will not mention what the ads are for. :)
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I use NoScript on my Firefox and almost never see them anymore.
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No, I often get exasperated with people that do. Don't they know that it's a scam?!
There have been a few rare occasions where I did it on blogs so the the owners could make money.
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Aleks85
I always click one the ones that say i've won X amount of dollars. turns out they are all just scams though, dang.
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I like to click on the ones that say 'hit/shoot this 3 times to win a ____'. I'll click twice and then move on.
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Not unless I can derive some humour from them. My favourite ever was one that appeared to offer equipment to allow you to perform stomach surgery. On yourself. At home.
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@: dappled
Are you serious?
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Absolutely. It said "Have a tummy-tuck at home". Knowing the pernicious nature of advertising, it was most likely some breakfast cereal that offered to give the appearance of a tummy-tuck, but that's not what the ad was implying. It was implying abdominoplasty you carry out on yourself.

Just when you think you've seen it all, eh?
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@: dappled
Well damn. Maybe it was from the same lady that got busted selling suicide kits online.
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If I ever click on an ad its only by accident.
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I wanna know how these ads know which state I live in. O_O;
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Your IP address and possibly from data that tracking cookies take from your computer.
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Ah. I remember the cookies. I kept trying to get rid of them but they'd always come back.

Nasty buggers. =__=;
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I used to when I was a few years younger, they asked for my credit card and I never did again. I learned they were a bunch of cons. Bloody cons. (I just wanted to say bloody. Yay.)
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I use adblock plus
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little_freak
http://xkcd.com/570/
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