# Do you click on ads?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 15, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357 "2009-01-15T01:30:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357/21 "2009-01-15T23:08:56Z")

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Very occasionally.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357/22 "2009-01-15T23:15:37Z")

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I believe the only ads I’ve ever purposefully clicked on in order to shop for something have been for wacky t-shirts, and I haven’t bought a wacky t-shirt online as yet.  
That’s it. (I don’t need a loan and I don’t care to contact assholes from high school.)

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357/23 "2009-01-16T00:52:50Z")

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When I was new to the internet, I clicked that pink pig coupon savings ad.

That ad was **poison** and I don’t ever click them anymore. I learned about spam on the same day.  
\*\*Poison \*\*- My exposure to the neverending ad. No matter what I clicked, I wasn’t quite there yet. Just one more…

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357/24 "2009-01-16T08:15:08Z")

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No, I’ve learned to ignore them most of the time.

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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-click-on-ads/481357/25 "2009-01-16T08:22:17Z")

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Only ads for Cafepress. For anything else, even if the subject of the ad interests me, I’m probably going to look it up via Wikipedia or Google first to make sure it’s honest.

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