Do you click on adverts?

Generally I don’t click on web adverts, but some people do. I spent a hundred quid on google adwords for the most excellent A Story for Bedtime for a month last year. It did mean a few more visitors than usual, but didn’t transform the site into the massively popular “audio YouTube” for parents that it deserves to be.
My friend The Open Sourcerer has this to say about online adverts:

there is one set of on-line adverts I find increasingly compelling and that’s those I come across by Microsoft. You know, when you are reading a piece about Linux or some Open Source news article, there are always Microsoft ads nearby that claim to show me how their stuff is better, faster, more secure or reliable.

Well, being an OSS advocate I find their claims quite hard to believe, so I ALWAYS click on them - just to make sure I am not missing out on something important. I haven’t found anything yet, but I guess if we all try we might find it

wise words for us all there I think!

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