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{{quote|''Hey! There's a fine art to annoyance! Annoyologists get paid big bucks to figure out how many ads you can put on a web page before people will click to another site.''|Ecosystems Unlimited psychologist Varroa Jacobsoni, ''[[Freefall]]'', [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01622.htm August 27th, 2008].}}
Well firstly, you see the ad on top, and the ad just to the left? (If you don't, turn off Adblock, you cheap bastard.) Those are '''Internet Ads'''. They are basically like ads in print media. They allow money to come to a site, so that sites can operate without people charging us to use the site (or at least charging us less than they would have).
In its most basic form, an ad on the Internet is simply put in a designated spot. Two main differences between this and print ads are that money from the ad is partly based on how many clicks an ad gets (so do that once in a while, to help this site), and that an ad will likely change if you refresh the page, especially when more companies are advertising on the site. Unfortunately, the pay-per-click model invites something called click fraud. [http://www.projectwonderful.com/ Project Wonderful], which also serves ads on this wiki, strives to eliminate click fraud through its "Infinite Auction" system. Another problem for web-based advertising are pop-up and ad blockers, which interestingly prevents you from viewing the above site properly.
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