Why would I ever click on an ad?
People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads
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#12Ironically, advertising business is mainly run by ad blocker users.
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#13Silicon Valley tends to lead the rest of the US in tech behaviors.
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#1410 people is not a big enough sample size, specially online.
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#1510 people is not a big enough sample size, specially online.
Look at the upper left corners of the images. They're looking at datasets of 100k+.
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#16Why would I ever click on an ad?
Because you didn't know it was one.
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#17I really wish there was a service which would let me gripe about my problems and it would email me 10 Ads a month of products trying to solve those problems.
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#18I think this has a large effect on opinions in an often revisited internet topic "moving away from ads". Whenever a service starts to offer a paid alternative, or people get on the topic of tracking, or micropayments comes up, it's always struck me that commenters seem used to effectively free content and seem to just ignore that there are people subsidizing their internet usage by clicking on ads comparatively all the time.
I think it would be wise for us to reflect on, and admit, that we (power users) are currently getting a far better than average deal in providing for the web services we use.
Quality content, services, and products are expensive to make. An internet where we pay for it instead of it being supported by user targeted ads isn't going to be covered by paying 10 cents per article you really liked.
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#1910 people is not a big enough sample size, specially online.
It's not 10 people. This is data that Facebook gives you and each of those numbers is per user in the selected region. The proper way of reading that first graph is that for all Facebook users in San Francisco, on average they liked 6 pages ever, liked 1 post in the last month, etc.
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#20Silicon Valley tends to lead the rest of the US in tech behaviors.
This is the best comment in here. We are the early adopters and when we do or don't do something, the rest aren't far behind with same.