Like you're on a new device or borrowing a computer, and you open a webpage - and literally every website blankets your screen with ads every-which-way and all kinds of permutations of springing up to try and get you to accidentally click on something. The actual news article or whatever is just an afterthought.
Literally - how the fuck do people use the internet without an adblocker.
Yeah, my friends are the same. Half the time they don't even realise they're clicking on an ad, and it's not a search ad, it's a remarketing carousel or something.
I'm in marketing and I've got the return on ad spend data right here and it says hacking brains works.
billionaire dollar industry not for nothing