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I cannot fathom how the "toe-fungus" ads still make money. Doesn't every internet user, at this point, have an instinctual spam sense? I don't even see the indi
by _bxg1 7y ago
I cannot fathom how the "toe-fungus" ads still make money. Doesn't every internet user, at this point, have an instinctual spam sense? I don't even see the individual ads; they're just noise. I actually assume that even if I were interested in the headlines, clicking the link wouldn't even take me to that content but to malware and scams. But I don't actually know that because, again, they are so blatant that I've never actually clicked one.
The most likely explanation is that it's older people who didn't grow up on the internet and still don't use it that much. If so, I wonder how the industry will change when nobody's left who's gullible enough to click? Will the quality of ads increase, at least, to where they represent real products? Or will scammers just get more creative?
- kumarvvr 7y agoSadly, I have caught myself looking at those ads and clicking them a few times. The draw is something similar to browsing Reddit. Endless bullshit and nonsense, but titillating and addictive.