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I want to ask a question on this subject. Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through? People talk about turning off ad block "

by rayalez 11y ago

I want to ask a question on this subject. Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through? People talk about turning off ad block "to support creators", but aren't you supporting creators only by clicking on ads? Personally, I have probably clicked on at most 3-5 ads in the years before I started using adblocker(by accident). Does it even make sense for me to turn it off if I'm not going to click on links anyway?

ctrl_freak 11y ago
> Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through? Depends on the inventory. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and CPC (cost per click) pricing models are both common in the online advertising industry, though CPM is more common with higher end publishers: https://written.com/blog/51/cpm-cpc-cpa-pricing-online-media https://written.com/blog/51/cpm-cpc-cpa-pricing-online-media
pen2l 11y ago
> Personally, I have probably clicked on at most 3-5 ads in the years before I started using adblocker(by accident). Does it even make sense for me to turn it off if I'm not going to click on links anyway? You'll end up clicking more than 3-5. I've been using a computer without adbock for the first time this week in the last 6 or something years that I've been using adblock. I've clicked on a lot of ads, they're too relevant. Curiously, I'm getting a lot of ads for products that I've already bought.... and I end up clicking on them to find out more info. They're just too relevant, they'll be about the thing you were thinking about just the other day -- you'll click them.
- 885895 11y ago
  >Curiously, I'm getting a lot of ads for products that I've already bought Exactly the same thing happened to me. Prior to the purchase I had been doing a bit of web searches -- first for the family of products I was looking for (i.e. not a specific brand) and based on what I read I decided to learn more about one product specifically. Confident about its quality after having read a lot of reviews, I bought it shortly after I had began looking. Several days later I began seeing ads for the product and they kept targeting me for quite a while since then. When I need something, I will generally research intensely and make a decision in short time. Sometimes the decision will be to not buy, sometimes to buy later and at other times to buy right away. When I decide to buy later, ads are useful to remind me or to offer competing products which come out in the meantime since when I'd done my research. Ads about something I decided I didn't want are mostly annoying. Ads about something I have are always annoying. The only kind of ads which are worse are those for things which are so irrelevant that I've never even considered them.

by rayalez 11y ago

ctrl_freak 11y ago

> Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through? Depends on the inventory. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and CPC (cost per click) pricing models are both common in the online advertising industry, though CPM is more common with higher end publishers: https://written.com/blog/51/cpm-cpc-cpa-pricing-online-media https://written.com/blog/51/cpm-cpc-cpa-pricing-online-media

pen2l 11y ago

> Personally, I have probably clicked on at most 3-5 ads in the years before I started using adblocker(by accident). Does it even make sense for me to turn it off if I'm not going to click on links anyway? You'll end up clicking more than 3-5. I've been using a computer without adbock for the first time this week in the last 6 or something years that I've been using adblock. I've clicked on a lot of ads, they're too relevant. Curiously, I'm getting a lot of ads for products that I've already bought.... and I end up clicking on them to find out more info. They're just too relevant, they'll be about the thing you were thinking about just the other day -- you'll click them.

885895 11y ago
>Curiously, I'm getting a lot of ads for products that I've already bought Exactly the same thing happened to me. Prior to the purchase I had been doing a bit of web searches -- first for the family of products I was looking for (i.e. not a specific brand) and based on what I read I decided to learn more about one product specifically. Confident about its quality after having read a lot of reviews, I bought it shortly after I had began looking. Several days later I began seeing ads for the product and they kept targeting me for quite a while since then. When I need something, I will generally research intensely and make a decision in short time. Sometimes the decision will be to not buy, sometimes to buy later and at other times to buy right away. When I decide to buy later, ads are useful to remind me or to offer competing products which come out in the meantime since when I'd done my research. Ads about something I decided I didn't want are mostly annoying. Ads about something I have are always annoying. The only kind of ads which are worse are those for things which are so irrelevant that I've never even considered them.