I think as a child I got viruses from one of the ads, you know, the ones would put on the side of the site. We had to call in a guy, to clean parents’ computer. I felt really guilty and never touched those ads again.
So Google’s and Meta’s main business are ads. And recently I felt confused. Do people click on ads? Don’t these ads feel phishy to them?
It was when I wanted to click a link I was interested in but an ad that had delayed loading covered the link the moment I clicked.
I vomited acid blood the last time that happened to me. It wasn’t an ad but an image loaded causing me to click something else instead.