Do you click on Google Ads?

[Since '76]

Wondering if most people see Google Adds on various websites as anything other then junk adds, equal to regular junk mail?

Edit - adding a poll, maybe

 

[PkennethV]

Nope. Just like anyother ad for me.

 

[ghall]

No!

 

[mcarnes]

Nope.

 

[EricNau]

I'll admit, I do occasionally if it looks like a cool product. ...but rarely.

 

[yg17]

I don't even see them. Firefox Adblock FTW!

 

[Cybix]

I do sometimes.

btw, it's "ad", not "add".

 

[mustard]

An ad is an ad no matter the source. I despise them.

 

[apfhex]

I use SafariBlock to block pagead2.googlesyndicaton.com, so no. I wouldn't click on them anyway. Only times I've EVER clicked on ads is when they were hand-picked by the site they were displayed on.

 

[SkyBell]

Yeah, I do. Sometimes it's just to laugh at what people will pay for

 

[NJuul]

I don't see them either, PithHelmet is very effective at blocking all kinds of adds.

 

[Father Jack]

Absolutely not

FJ

 

[furcalchick]

i avoid them....alot of them smell like virus sites.

 

[stoid]

So who are clicking on all these Google ads that makes billions for Google?

 

[mkrishnan]

If you're talking about the adaptive google-analytics ads, I *cough* do haterblock them. Before I started doing that, I have to say, they seem to come up with ridiculous nonsense. If they were linking me to Amazon.com or Body Shop or Ralph Lauren, or some other store I'd actually buy from, fine. But they seem to mostly link to weird spammers.

 

[G5Unit]

If they make sense, I click about 5 a year. Oh and it's not adds, it's ads.

 

[Since '76]

If they make sense, I click about 5 a year. Oh and it's not adds, it's ads.

yeh, my grammar is not well...

 

[CrackedButter]

I'm the only person to have clicked 'yes'!

Wow. I actually use their services.

 

[oligore]

If its a website that I want to support I might click one of their ads so they get money

 

[Abstract]

I only click on an advert if I do it by accident....

 

[macridah]

never. I have a better chance of clicking a graphic ad.

 

[psycoswimmer]

No, and I hate when they're on people's personal websites and they just mess up the layout. On bigger sites it's not as bad. I still never click on them though.

 

[ravenvii]

Rarely, but if it looks weird or interesting, I do click. I'm on broadband so it only takes a few seconds to see where it goes, then back to normal browsing I go. What the hell.