User blog comment:Ezioprez9709/Advertisements are garbage./@comment-4189499-20150613152802

If ads were pointless, then why would companies still be spending millions of dollars on advertising each year? Just think about it for a minute. If you don't pay attention to them, then that's fine; you're not the target audience. Other people do pay attention to them and bring lots of extra revenue to the companies advertising. That's money that ad agencies then give to websites such as Wikia in exchange for more ad space, allowing companies such as Wikia to get the funds they need to keep operating. So no, ads aren't pointless.