Eli5: how exactly does my clicking on a link to a website turn into money for the website’s owner?
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It doesn’t. In fact, by default, it incurs a very tiny cost (fractions of a penny) because their server load increases by that much.
But if the website has ads and you load one of them, they may be paid by the ad company a small amount just by you visiting and seeing the ad.
And of course, if the website is a business of any kind, once you are there you might buy something.
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