did you ever genuinely click on a web ad?
i think it happened ~three times to me
@Elizafox once it was a very relevant and good looking sponsored google item
once a very impressive youtube ad for a watch
@CobaltVelvet I Google things if I find something interesting
@CobaltVelvet not for 12-15 years (this being when websites on subjects like electronic engineering/hardware had trustworthy curated small banner adds to companies selling potentially genuinely useful items.).
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Nope Nope Nope
it would be nice to have good statistics about how much of the global advertising business is a huge marketing executives circlejerk
i say 90%
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it is well known that ~50% of ads are essentially wasted
surveillance capitalism was born to solve that
@pasqui023 yeah but an estimation of the final efficiency of each method, actual purchases/subscriptions compared to the advertising methods and budget
@CobaltVelvet only a few times in a over a decade when i have been shopping for something and the algorithms found something i couldn't
@CobaltVelvet I bought a wallet based on a web ad, but I was careful to not actually click through the ad but instead google the brand in an incognito window.
@CobaltVelvet no