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No, they're not. If I wanted to buy something right now, I wouldn't be reading HN, I'd be browsing Amazon or whatever site sells what I needed to buy.
by jlarocco 14y ago
No, they're not.
If I wanted to buy something right now, I wouldn't be reading HN, I'd be browsing Amazon or whatever site sells what I needed to buy.
- IanCal 14y agoIt does, however, help pay for the content you're consuming.
- jlarocco 14y agoI already covered that in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5459646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5459646
- chrischen 14y agoA properly targeted ad is useful. By definition, if the ad works on you then it did something useful for both the advertiser and the person who saw the ad. Ads obviously sometimes work, or else no one would do ads.
- rtpg 14y agoads also serve to inform you of the existence of products