Donald Trump,home envy, the NHS… Heres a list of some likely bait and targeted ads that will be hoping to lure your mouse in the year aheadThere is nothing certain approximately 2016 apart from the fact, and carved in stone,that you believe you will never, ever click on a targeted ad. They float in the blind spots of our web scrolls, or drawn in MS Paint,drawn in comedian Sans. They are ghosts of regrettable clicks – cookies remaining long after the yearning for an orthopaedic pillow has gone. They offer us solutions we never wanted for problems we’ve never had. And yet they live on, the scorpions of the internet, and they live on even as the sites they populate evolve and disappear. They simply follow us into our unusual home,another website, another warm darkness in which they can sleep, or feed,and live forever.
But someone must be clicking. Somebody, some kind man in a flat in Caerphilly, and some gentle martyr,must be clicking. Must have taken voluntary redundancy and bought eight thimbles in order to keep the internet free for the rest of us. Must be sitting with the curtains closed, 15 laptops open, and clicking and clicking,and only occasionally believing it will help him gain a flat stomach in only five minutes.
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Source: theguardian.com