User blog comment:Ezioprez9709/Advertisements are garbage./@comment-1038387-20150613115853/@comment-1038387-20150613131522

There are several sites I now use for online fandom shopping that I wouldn't have known were it not for ads. Yay ads.

Ads work on enough people to make them profitable. They predate the internet, so it's only logical that when the internet got up and running, they started using ads.