Takes me seconds to click and close, especially since I work on my laptop so I don't mind it. Could I write a script to do it? Probably. Do I want to spend time learning to script just for that? Naw, got bigger fish to fry.
It's about making money in whatever way we can. It's minimal effort and time to click and close an ad that has no other effect on my life so it doesn't phase me. Coming out of the web 2.0 mindset where there's hundreds of ads strewn across my screen and I don't even get one red cent for it to clicking on an ad where I can earn even a penny sounds good to me. As I said it is a culture shift. Eventually companies like Brave won't be able to offer their users pennies when they make lots once more companies get into the game and offer better rewards. The more we opt into these things the better it gets.
Sounds like the tokenomics of BAT make very little sense if it is worth anybody's while to click away at ads.
Improvement to archaic ways of thinking where consumers get none of the cut the companies are making. The only way to shift the culture is to get more people to demand it. The fact that Brave is getting advertisements from mainstream companies instead of just crypto focused companies signals a shift in my opinion. It's only a matter of time, and in the crypto game it's better to wait than to rush.