Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

tourist@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have never, not once in my life, clicked on an internet or electronic ad. Even for things I’m ostensibly interested in. Jury’s out on just how much manically SEO optimized retail web sites on Google count as “ads,” I guess. But other than that: Zilch.

  But someone somewhere must be clicking on them because billions of dollars are spent every year pushing the fucking things.

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m so skewed this direction that I’ll scroll past the sponsored version of the link in a Google search to click on the exact, unsponsored version. I don’t know why.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s been malware pretending to be legit links that get pushed to the top by being sponsored links. It’s a great idea to never click on sponsored links.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same for me and Amazon results

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some marketers believe it doesn’t matter if someone clicks as brand recognition has its own value. On the other hand, who hasn’t heard of Tiktok by now?

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course marketers believe that, because it’s their job to give their clients hype hope.

      Middle management usually wants to hear about conversions this quarter, not mindshare.

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve seen Proton services mentioned so much here and in communities such as selfhosted that I went to their website today to check what they offer.

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      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Proton is a linuxtool for game compatibility.nothing to do with the web company.

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  • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AdNauseum

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve only ever clicked on one ad and that was for a cloud host I thought would be cheaper than Vultr. If anyone knows a managed k8s cluster cheaper than Vultr let me know plz.

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• BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go into app or play store and sort by most downloaded. They’re pretty exclusively a list of games and apps that you find advertised.

  I’m my circle, people are seeming to become more willing to admit they got something from an ad. I feel like there used to be shame behind it

  The most frequent lately has been women buying their clothes from Instagram ads. The argument they have made is that they see SO MANY ads, the one they choose to spend money on was because they wanted it and that apparently is a solid vetting process. But this is people in my sphere, I dunno if it’s a thing.

  I used a Google TV stick and for sick of the bullshit ads and switched to a simple launcher. In reddit and lemmy threads, there are always highly up voted people who are happy to get “popular recommendations”.

  The generality, I feel like, is people are busy living their lives, don’t want to research and learn about everything in their life, and just go with what they see.

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  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s actually gotten really difficult to research products, speaking as someone who does a lot of it, so I don’t think it’s about not wanting to do it.

    Go look for something like a good dehumidifier and it’s all seo-optimized bullshit barely hiding that it’s advertisements for cheap Chinese junk on Amazon. And nearly every link is like that. For pages upon pages worth of results.

    It’s so so difficult to judge what’s actually legit info and what isn’t. So I don’t blame people for asking other humans for what worked for them. You almost kinda have to unless you know of good legit review sites for every product you might want or need.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tbh instagram is the only place I click all the ads. All because they’re so god damned weird.

    I never buy anything though.

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What they’re told to want. Wonderful. Won’t ever be nefarious.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If I found out, say, my partner or a close friend clicked on ads, I would lose some respect for them.

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I right click them and then in the drop down menu that appears I click “block element…”

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• elrik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve never clicked an ad on purpose. I use DNS to block all the common click thru domains for ads.

  This move by Microsoft will undoubtedly result in more Windows PCs infected by malware as people find tools to remove the ads and some of those tools will turn out to be malware.

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  • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Windows is malware, they can’t turn off the keylogger or telemetry

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have on search results, but it was for something that I was already looking for. The ad had the same link to the web page as the result below. 🤷‍♂️

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I intentionally skip these and click the normal link right below it lol. I also realized that I have clicked these in the past by accident because they don’t load… Since I block ads

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• nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  noone ever does – Microsoft, Google and Facebook must be faking their reports on how effective their advertisement platforms are in order to boost their sales. the sales of ads, not the advertised products

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s what they are testing. Hopefully you are just being silly. People click ads a lot, that’s why there are so many and it’s a multi billion dollar industry. They work.

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• i_have_some_enemies2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Underrated comment

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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not once. I did willingly click on a sponsor link from a YT video once tho, it was for a rice cooker. I ended up getting a different one, but still.

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