The sad thing is that if you were the sort of person that would click on that ad - you’d probably be gullible enough to pay for whats sitting on the end of that

The sad thing is that if you were the sort of person that would click on that ad - you’d probably be gullible enough to pay for whats sitting on the end of that link. So making it obnoxious is actually giving the advertisers a useful filter. And since the gullible types are where they get their money from they optimise for that. Tech folk are just unwanted noise in their statistics.