How Often do You Respond to Online Advertisements?

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Same as the question: How often do you respond to online advertisements? I sometimes wonder how often aspies vs. neurotypicals respond, or if they are fairly equal. People obviously must respond, as the companies are being reinforced with eventual money in one way, shape, or form.

I skip TV commercials with the DVR, I use adblocker to block the ads on the Internet, and never listen to the radio because of the ads there which I cannot skip.

If I can't block the ads and they show up, I tune them out. I don't even read what they say, let alone click on them.

If I can't tune them out because the ads are too intrusive... a full page interstitial ad for example, I get mad and close the browser.

There you have it.

Never.

I try to stay as ad-free as possible because I find them pointless and irritating. I don't usually watch tv unless it's recorded, and when I do watch it normally, I almost always get up during commercials, or else mute it. And I haven't seen an internet ad in months, but I never clicked on them in the past when I did see them. The only time in recent history I can think of an ad influencing me was the Stride commercials where they come beat you up if you don't stop chewing their long lasting gum. I just had to try it. And it does last quite a long time, the mint one at least. My jaw gets tired before the flavour dies.

I was recently at my friend's house and we were watching videos on youtube and I couldn't believe that they play an ad sometimes before the video, and have pop up ads at the bottom of the video. Plus they have a big flashing ad beside the video. That would make me so angry!

Me? Never. I always wonder what kind of people actually click on those things. But as you said someone must have or otherwise no one will be putting up those stupid ads.

I don't think I've ever clicked on an internet advertisement. Most don't show thanks to the Adblock plugin, but some sites are now catching on to that and withholding content if they detect that you've got an adblocker enabled. They claim that it's something like stealing, since you're getting to see a site's content without viewing the adverts that help them pay for it. The logic is kind of understandable, if a little fuzzy. I'd have thought that the types of users who use an adblocker are not the same users that are willing to click on adverts and get the advertisers their money's worth, so I'm not sure there's a significant injustice there.

TV ads here in the States also drive me crazy. It seems like there's twice as much commercial time here as in Britain, but half as many actual commercials - just the same ones repeated over and over throughout a show, adding up to a massive waste of time. It's especially frustrating when the shows themselves are cut down to force more ads in. I read somewhere that the US airings of Doctor Who have been cut down to make more room for ads, even though the show is already stretched from its original 45 minute length to a full hour just to cram in more adverts.

I never reply to them, because they might have hidden viruses in them.

Hardly ever.

Well, not really, but I always look at the internet ads. Like I found one that sad some website was selling macbooks for $23, for a total of around 80% savings which is utter bs because they typically sell for $1000 (rounded up).

I never really reply either. Sometimes I see what they're really all about, but they want you to give them tons and tons of information, which they will use to give you even more advertisements. A lot of them make me laugh at how silly a bunch of them are, and wondering who would ever click on them. I never knew about the ad blocker stuff; I'll have to try it!

Occasionally, if the ads are for a company I already trust. Fairly often, in the case of Amazon recommendations and games on Steam.

I use AdBlock, when I can, to filter out the more obviously fraudulent rubbish. I find a lot of the ones advertised on WP offensive, slightly for their attempts to deceive (like pretending to link to neutral reviews of their snake oil) and mostly because of their godawful spelling and presentation.

I don't reply. And am advertisement blind. If I manage to remember some advertisement, I never remember the brand or even the product. All I can remember is a funny idea in the commercial.

What do you mean "respond"? I don't click ads at the side of webpages, and spam e-mails are filtered automatically.