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Do you ever intentionally click ads by google?

Bottle_of_Smoke · 2010-10-12 19:17:25

Just clicked a google ad to watch tv online - in Holland and want to watch the football. It is the first time I ever clicked a google ad intentionally and I've been using the internet for 12/13 years So curious does anyone often use them? PS do not post links to watch RTE online - I think its legally shady and will prob…

12-10-2010 8:17pm

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Bottle_of_Smoke

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Just clicked a google ad to watch tv online - in Holland and want to watch the football.

It is the first time I ever clicked a google ad intentionally and I've been using the internet for 12/13 years

So curious does anyone often use them?

PS do not post links to watch RTE online - I think its legally shady and will prob get you a ban. Furthermore I'm going to catch the second half in the Irish bar.

do you ever intentionally click ads by google? 16 votes

Regularly

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Maybe 1-10 times a year

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Never

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#2 12-10-2010 8:18pm

chin_grin

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There are ads....................ON THE INTERNET?

/guffaw.

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#3 12-10-2010 8:26pm

Mr. Presentable

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Never. He'd like it too much

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#4 12-10-2010 8:29pm

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It baffles me how advertising on the internet is so huge.

I would never trust an ad on the internet.

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#5 12-10-2010 8:31pm

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Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

PS do not post links to watch RTE online - I think its legally shady and will prob get you a ban. Furthermore I'm going to catch the second half in the Irish bar.

You can its not Illegal to post links to the sites..

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#6 12-10-2010 8:38pm

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No, others do, based on the money they made me

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#7 12-10-2010 8:46pm

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Adblock is your friend

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#8 12-10-2010 8:47pm

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I clicked ads by google on purpose on a site I hate.Happy that their acount got banned.....;)

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#9 12-10-2010 8:48pm

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KeithM89 wrote: »

Adblock is your friend

This man knows

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#10 12-10-2010 8:51pm

Mr Benevolent

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Adblocker FTW.

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#11 12-10-2010 8:57pm

My name is URL

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There's a thread in the Soccer forum for posting match streams for future reference - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055680428&page=32

I don't click on any ads.. I have most ad servers blocked from my HOSTS file anyway so it wouldn't do much good

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#12 12-10-2010 9:03pm

Kimono-Girl

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My name is URL wrote: »

I don't click on any ads.. I have most ad servers blocked from my HOSTS file anyway so it wouldn't do much good

+1
and
I don't click on any ads intentionally either!

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#13 12-10-2010 9:06pm

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I detest the adverts in the standard search results, particularly since they stopped just putting them on the right-hand side and included some in what should be the real results listing (with only a far-too-subtle distinction in background colour).

If a site can't register in Google on its own merits, then it doesn't have what I want. So why should I click on it ?

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#14 12-10-2010 9:16pm

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I often click on the ads in gmail... they regularly link to stories I'm interested in.

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#15 12-10-2010 9:19pm

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Mark200 wrote: »

I often click on the ads in gmail... they regularly link to stories I'm interested in.

Reeeeheeeeheeeeheeeeaaaaaly?

<puts on tin foil hat>

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#16 12-10-2010 9:39pm

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What ads?

No ads here

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#17 13-10-2010 7:01am

bob the bob

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Sometimes to intentionally cost the ad owner money, or to earn the website owner a few pennies

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#18 13-10-2010 9:28am

take everything

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The ads on Youtube have gotten fairly intrusive.

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#19 13-10-2010 9:34am

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It's been said twice already in this thread.

Firefox + Adblock Plus = Bye bye ads

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#20 13-10-2010 9:51am

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I hate those party poker ads popping up the whole time

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#21 13-10-2010 9:59am

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Adds irritate the s'hit out of me. I intentionaly ignore them, If i want to buy something i'll go look for it, i don't want to be asked every 2 seconds, it's like those annoying little f'uckers who try to pull you into their shops when you're on holiday:mad:

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#22 13-10-2010 10:15am

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Sometimes the content of the ad actually is something I'm interested in. I don't purposefully not click on ads, if I think it'll be worth going to that site there's a link right there so I click it.

In saying that it's very rare that I do click on one.

I'd guess that a large proportion of Googles revenues from ads would be from users who don't even realise they're clicking on an ad, thinking it's just an internal link or site content.

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#23 13-10-2010 10:21am

Dave!

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I don't click them ever, but having work for a few months in a job that involved search engine marketing, I can tell ya that lots of people do click on them, and webmasters can make a fortune using Adwords :eek:

I really don't know who's clicking them though Must be people like my mam and the likes

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#24 13-10-2010 11:20am

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Mark200 wrote: »

I often click on the ads in gmail... they regularly link to stories I'm interested in.

I sometimes click on ones I am completely not interested in just to throw them off. Blinds - up to 55% Off - wow neato.

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#25 13-10-2010 1:28pm

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jimthemental wrote: »

I hate those party poker ads popping up the whole time

they're annoying but not as annoying as the live jasmin pop ups. When u click the video, when u click play on the video, infuriathog.

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