Out of principle, no.
Got 'em adblocked, so no.
I would be willing to click on an ad for something I was interested in that seemed promising.
I have yet to find a google ad that I’ve wanted to click on, though.
Yeah, I’ve clicked a couple on purpose, and a couple by accident. Haven’t bought anything based on one, and I usually don’t buy from ads.
But you never know, if one was on point for something I had in mind, I might use it to buy. Might as well give the SDMB a cut if I’m buying anyway.
I have clicked a couple on purpose. They were relevant to thread.
I mean, really, if you post a thread along the lines of “Where Can I Get a Copy of the Bible?”, and there are ads saying, “Cheap Bibles, Free Postage”, you’d be stupid not to click.
I haven’t, and I plan not to.
I have kept out of this so far, but I am disappointed with the SD for doing this… (Should anyone be keeping count of opinions.)
I don’t mind the ads and I’ve clicked on some interesting ones.
I rarely even notice the ads. I would click on one if indeed I noticed it and it was of interest to me.
Court documents are public records. As they should be. This allows the citizenry to act as a check on the limits of the gov’t.
What would be scary, would be a gov’t which could prosecute its citizens without telling anyone what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
Ad Block enabled
Yup, and I would never click even if I did see them.
never have and never will. Intrusive crap but easy to ignore. I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on an internet commercial link
I’ve clicked a few Google ads on other sites (and occasionally still do), but I adblocked the SDMB’s Google ads, so no.
I actually removed my HOSTS file so I can see them. I have clicked those that I find interesting/funny/weird.
I believe however that the ad content should be filtered somehow. It is ironic that in a thread debunking homeopathy you are going to find ads for homeopathic hemedies. Fighting ignorance and all that. 
I usually surf with Firefox and Adblock, but I’ll open the SD with IE from time to time. I figure I owe the ads, in a way. You see, I can see who is getting all angry about them, and those who self-righteously declare they’ll never click an ad ‘out of principle’ ( :rolleyes: ). This lets me know who to ignore.
If your principles are triggered by small ads at the bottom of a web page, then your moral outrage is calibrated way too friggin’ low. The list of people who are complaining bitterly about the ads could be profitably used as a guide for the Ignore function, if I cared to research it that closely.
I’ve deliberately unblocked them because it’s kind of interesting to me to see how the AdSense bots react to our yammer.
I’ve never deliberately clicked on a banner ad on any other website. That being said, I have an unreasoning loyalty thing going on with both the SDMB and (to a lesser degree) Google – so my consumer resistance is substantially lowered in this case.
If a product is worthwhile, and a sponsor of something that I appreciate, that does effect my purchasing decision. Sometimes surreally. (I exclusively buy Lux soap cakes, for instance, out of gratitute for many, many hours of entertainment made possible by sponsorship deal that they had going seventy years ago, and which most consumers have probably long forgotten about. It’s good soap, it’s cheap, and it gets the stink off. Everybody’s happy. I would never consider buying Lever2000, made and marketed by the same company, because it’s crap soap and the commercials annoyed the hell out of me.)
I have clicked on a few Google ads here. So far there have been few things that looked attractive enough to merit much consideration. (I don’t do a lot of online purchasing.) The closest I came to actually making a purchase was when a link for Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story came up in a Family Guy thread. It went direct to the Fox online outlet, and looked pretty solid. I considered the price, though, and decided that it more of a rental thing, for me.
I thought about it though, and I don’t feel put out in the slightest that my contemplation of the purchase represented an incremental little benefit to Google and to the SDMB. I like Google. I like the SDMB. If I ever see anything that that I must have, it looks solid, and the price is competitive, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it through an SDMB Google ad.
Not only do I refuse to click on the ads, I refuse to click on threads about the ads. :dubious: