Have you ever hit the receptionist?

Shirastro · Feb 26, 2008

Well the question refers to the banner at the top (and bottom) of this page, but im speaking about the banners you find on internet sites in general.

Has anyone ever clicked on a banner found on a site? How often do people feel the urge to play "free internet poker" or find "the hottest cars on the market"?

How useful this type of commercial really is?

Bamspeedy · Feb 26, 2008

Extremely rare that I check them out, most of the time I hit them it is by accident.

skadistic · Feb 26, 2008

Firefox + ad block = No banners to click.

But no I have not since 1990 something.

Ramius75 · Feb 26, 2008

never. unless they put something like click banners to support website. i will almost never click on banner.

Cutlass · Feb 26, 2008

what banner are you referring to?

Dubai Vol · Feb 26, 2008

Mrs Dubai has a professional interest in marketing, and it drives her mad that I literally do not even SEE the ads in the paper or hear them on the radio. All these years of being bombarded by ads has caused me to perfect my ability to tune them out. So I don't need an ad blocker: mine's built-in!

general_kill · Feb 26, 2008

Pretty rare, but I've seen ads that were so appealing that I had to click to check em out.

Thorvald of Lym · Feb 26, 2008

Nope, and I don't intend to start.

Narz · Feb 26, 2008

I am more likely to click word ads than banner ads.

DNK · Feb 26, 2008

There's an ad on this page?!

Adblock /thread

Shirastro · Feb 26, 2008

Well, the amount of people blocking ads make my question even more valuable...how useful these commercials really are?

emzie · Feb 26, 2008

I turned off adblocker to see what would come up and oddly enough...

And I hit him square in the face. And I felt good about myself. Firefox still prevented the popup.

skadistic · Feb 26, 2008

Shirastro said:
Well, the amount of people blocking ads make my question even more valuable...how useful these commercials really are?

Well for the price you pay ( not much) you get your ad out there to millions of computers. If only a few people click on it its paid for it self.

Cutlass · Feb 26, 2008

The majority of people who visit the web are still not sophisticated to block the ads.

Cheezy the Wiz · Feb 26, 2008

Every now and then one appeals to my taste, and I'll take her out, but by and large receptionists are old ladies and the like.

BasketCase · Feb 26, 2008

FIVE

Good one, Cheezy.

Cutlass · Feb 26, 2008

Add these 3 extensions to Firefox and work out how to configure them and you will kill 95% of all ads on the net.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136

AL_DA_GREAT · Feb 27, 2008

Only noobs see adds online. I have blocked them all.

Julian Delphiki · Feb 27, 2008

In 14 years of using internet i've probably clicked a banner ad on purpose about twice.

silver 2039 · Feb 27, 2008

I've got it blocked.

Have you ever hit the receptionist?

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