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Just as the title says: Have you ever clicked on an ad, knowing it was an ad, on purpose? What ad was it? Why did you click it?

Curious because I realized I have not once in my life clicked on an ad shown online on purpose. Accidentally, and being tricked into clicking the wrong thing sure; never with intent though.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Yes. When I search for a company name and their website is the first organic result, but they still bid on their own fucking name. I click that shit to cost them money for being stupid. That of course reinforces their marketing manager's opinion that they're doing a great job, but whatever. Waste all the money you want, I guess. It's pretty ridiculous how inefficient big companies can be and still make massive amounts of money.

[–] rjthyen@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it dumb that if I Google "Amazon" the top result is their ad and the next is the same link without the ad? Would make way more sense for the Amazon's ad to be the top result if I googled "Wal-Mart"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, that's what online marketing managers would do if they had limited resources.

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