I find it so weird idea that people really click on ads. I don't know if I've ever done so (intentionally). As such I would have expected more like 90% of clicks to be fraudulent.
Where I clicked while the page is still loading. But by the time my click is registered, an ad has loaded in the target location.
I suppose you could say loading ads asynchronously improves the user experience, but my skeptical experience is they intentionally load in high activity localities.
Every time it feels like a bait and switch.
It's just a bit too much. You need to have a rooted android.
I did it when they increased the ads to one ad every 2-3 posts.
This is the whole reason they do so much tracking and analysis, to suss out the idiots who'll just buy whatever is shoved in front of them.
I click on these adds, and if I like what I see, I'll buy it. I feel a lot more comfortable supporting small businesses that someone has poured their heart and sole into. I want to see these companies thrive, and if targeted advertising is the way I'm alerted to them, then so be it!
Don’t show ad-network ads.
In the very beginning - say, circa 1995 when I was building my first websites - I would click on almost every banner ad I saw.
I wanted to send a signal to advertisers, and to the market in general, that there really were people out there.
I was trying to do my part to care for, and feed, the infant industry I was taking part in.
There was also that one in the early 2000s that claimed to donate a cup of rice for every ad clicked, and maybe another one that planted seeds or something. I think I clicked on those a bunch for a while. Doubt they ever did any good, and I should probably have just donated the $2 I probably "earned" for those charities with my clicks.
He did end up hiring me for a tiny bit of website work after that, paid like $200. My first ever paid tech gig.
Advertising delenda est.
Nowadays on search engines knowing that they're likely spending a dollar or two to reach me, I'll click to test the veracity of their targetting. If they're going to bid for people searching from X in country Y, they'll be needing an ROI and providing I'm genuinely interested in whatever X is, the ad is no problem.