A curious note on my own behaviour.  I&#x27;ve been on the internet since...roughly 1993&#x2F;94?<p>Reflecting on how I act, even back in the day &quot;before ad-blockers&quot;, even if I saw an ad that seemed to link me to the place I wanted to go, I wouldn&#x27;t click on it.<p>Instead I would open up a new window&#x2F;tab, actively go to a search engine, search for the website&#x2F;company&#x2F;product I was interested in visiting (perhaps the one mentioned in the link&#x2F;ad) and enter via their website&#x2F;front door.<p>I think this is a behaviour I&#x27;ve picked up from the historically learning that banners&#x2F;popups are just BAD NEWS...no exceptions.  Like powerpoints, attachments or strange emails, I just have ingrained in me these things are not to be trusted and to not engage with them.  Who knew where they&#x27;re really taking you with their redirects, what they&#x27;re doing, if they&#x27;re really sending you where they say they are, or whether there&#x27;s some hijack&#x2F;virus&#x2F;whatever.  Back in the day, they were just generally something delivered from the seedier side of the internet: something to be avoided.<p>Nowdays, the seedier&#x2F;annoying side of the internet has of course become the mainstream, but that&#x27;s why we have ad-blockers.<p>I&#x27;m curious to know though, if I&#x27;m the only person who, through their own behaviour&#x2F;history&#x2F;preference, has been trained to go straight to the company&#x2F;source&#x2F;product rather than through an ad even when its presented to us...