Most people here seem to think that one clicks ads only by accident. If this were true such clicks would never lead to a purchase or just associate a brand with annoyance. I simply can&#x27;t believe that. Sure, mostly, I see ads for stuff I have just purchased, sometimes for months but there also have been useful ones from time to time for me (mostly home automation&#x2F;Raspberry Pi stuff), also my brain seems wired not to ignore such ads.<p>Aren&#x27;t geeks missing out by ignoring things targeted specifically to them (us)? Are geeks just stubborn? If you say things like &quot;we get a better deal because stupid ad clickers pay for our internet experience&quot;, you are completely missing the fact that such an ad clicker probably made a valuable discovery through an ad, one that was even worth real money!<p>Do most HN-ers really believe all ads are fraudulent rip-offs designed to trick us just into clicking on them? Sure some are, but people here seem to think they all are.