Sick of Bad Ads? Does clicking help?

I work in advertising. I make banner ads for a living and thus when I’m working I click a lot of ads, my own and competitors. I’ve noticed that at work, when I surf the good sites, I see a lot of high quality advertising from major manufacturers. When I go home I see ads for Evony, teeth cleaners, and “how to get ripped”. CRAP.

Now, a few things might be happening here. I might go on sketchier sites at home (very likely), but it also might be true that I’ve been cookied by the ad servers at work and they know that I actually click on ads. While at home I surf click free.

Because they know their clients are looking for clicks, they serve the good stuff to “clicky me” at work, and the crapy to “non-clicky me” at home.

I have no proof. But the experiment begins now…. cache cleared!