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thesquanderer

(11,986 posts)
4. I agree with you about sources...
Fri Aug 11, 2017, 04:57 PM
Aug 2017

As long as you know what it is you're looking at, it's more helpful to be aware than not, and make your own judgment accordingly.

That said, I'm not sure about "If you don't click on any ads, all you're doing by going to the WT's website is running up their bill." Not all ad revenue is based on clicks... you can also choose to pay for impressions, which are merely eyeballs. And just getting *traffic* (which is tracked, and reported by sites like alexa) increases the value of their site, their appeal to advertisers in general, and possibly what they can charge for other kinds of ads. So a visit to the site is not entirely useless to them, just by avoiding the click.

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