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  • EeeDawg101@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Clicking on the ad is what triggers a charge (in terms of cost). Simply showing the ad is basically worthless. At least that’s how it was a while back when I was running a website and I had ads on it. The trick to getting bigger payouts was to make the ads look like part of your content and no so out of place. Twitter is doing just that and typically it is against the terms of use for ad networks, but since it’s their own network I guess that doesn’t really matter.



  • I work in the IT field and in the last 5 months or so the amount of users getting into sticky situations (fake virus warnings, notification hijacking, etc) has skyrocketed. I kept thinking they were visiting shady sites, but finally I found out it’s the ads on google search results. It’s ridiculous how shady the ads are and I completely blame google. The notification feature in chrome is the stupidest thing ever with how easy it is for sites to take advantage of ignorant users.