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I have been actively using Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and I do most of my shopping online. What always boggles my mind is that how do advertisers make money? I don't reme

I have been actively using Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and I do most of my shopping online. What always boggles my mind is that how do advertisers make money? I don't remember the last time I actually saw an ad on Facebook/Google, liked the product so much that I instantly bought it. Everyone I know in my circle would agree and comply with me.

carlmcqueen 8y ago
That's a pretty closed feedback loop and not yet representative of the web as a whole. A simple example of someone different are those who work around me who work in a corporation and aren't allowed ad-blockers by company policy and look at Ads by force.
- CodeSheikh 8y ago
  "aren't allowed ad-blockers by company policy and look at Ads by force". Extreme!. Do you mean people working for ad agencies?
  - carlmcqueen 8y ago
    no, just poorly written. Just can't use ad-blockers and thus have to witness the horrors of the state of ads if we look at websites.
Fifer82 8y ago
I have a selected blindness with ads. However what I found recently was so do others. I was with my friend, and we wanted to know the exchange rate, so my friend fired up his phone and googled it. We got to a web page with tiny white boxes with black text, and a half screen booking.com ad. I asked him what his thoughts were on annoying ads shifting the content down like that, and he said "I haven't seen an ad for years mate". The glaring device screen was mostly ad and he failed to even make the connection. It makes me wonder, are ads really so easily ignored, or have ads went down some psychological hole where you think you are clever but a few years later you are foaming at the mouth as a booking.com customer?
- cosmojg 8y ago
  And here I am trying to figure out whether your comment is itself an advertisement for booking.com and you an adbot.
  - Fifer82 8y ago
    That made me laugh, maybe that was the goal of the ad....
actuallyalys 8y ago
I don't remember the last time I clicked on an ad either. But there's definitely been times when I'm looking to buy something and I google a company I know offers that product—often through advertising.

carlmcqueen 8y ago

That's a pretty closed feedback loop and not yet representative of the web as a whole. A simple example of someone different are those who work around me who work in a corporation and aren't allowed ad-blockers by company policy and look at Ads by force.

CodeSheikh 8y ago
"aren't allowed ad-blockers by company policy and look at Ads by force". Extreme!. Do you mean people working for ad agencies?
- carlmcqueen 8y ago
  no, just poorly written. Just can't use ad-blockers and thus have to witness the horrors of the state of ads if we look at websites.

Fifer82 8y ago

I have a selected blindness with ads. However what I found recently was so do others. I was with my friend, and we wanted to know the exchange rate, so my friend fired up his phone and googled it. We got to a web page with tiny white boxes with black text, and a half screen booking.com ad. I asked him what his thoughts were on annoying ads shifting the content down like that, and he said "I haven't seen an ad for years mate". The glaring device screen was mostly ad and he failed to even make the connection. It makes me wonder, are ads really so easily ignored, or have ads went down some psychological hole where you think you are clever but a few years later you are foaming at the mouth as a booking.com customer?

cosmojg 8y ago
And here I am trying to figure out whether your comment is itself an advertisement for booking.com and you an adbot.
- Fifer82 8y ago
  That made me laugh, maybe that was the goal of the ad....

actuallyalys 8y ago

I don't remember the last time I clicked on an ad either. But there's definitely been times when I'm looking to buy something and I google a company I know offers that product—often through advertising.