>if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them. or by disguising ads

>if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them. or by disguising ads as a legitimate part of the page so that users click them by mistake, often leading people to download malware. Just about every software download page on the internet that has ads is full of Google served ads that lead to malware. This is what Google has turned the web into for people that don't use adblock: http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png People have complained about this for years. Maybe doing some OCR on the ads you serve to filter out big fake 'Download' buttons isn't enough of an "interesting or hard problem" for you super-geniuses to waste your time on.