[tobico]

I use ad blockers for distracting image and popup ads, but I fairly frequently click on Google text ads in search results. When there's a product category that's very crowded, if a company is willing to pony up some money to get my attention, that's often one indicator that a particular product might be worth my time to investigate.

[kps]

These are about the only ads I deliberately use, and yet, it happens again and again that I am interested in buying XYZ, search for XYZ, click an ad that explicitly mentions XYZ — and find that the advertiser doesn't offer XYZ. What is it about marketeers that has them ceaselessly shitting upstream from where people drink?