The advertisement industry is one of the worst plagues of current human civilization.

Just imagine an individual person doing the things that advertisers do: Constantly follow you around, demand your attention, gaslight you, pester you to give him/her your money, and snoop through your private life so he/she can do those things even more.

Ads condition us to normalize the worst attributes that nobody tolerates on a personal scale.

A constant mental barrage, waste of time, defacement of public space, and often thinly veiling misinformation...

And worst of all, it's an Emperor with no Clothes: Almost nobody goes out to buy a product because of an ad.

In fact, the more frequently someone sees ads for something that they don't already buy on their own anyway, it's more likely to permanently turn them OFF from the product! (Fuck you Grammarly!)

If I don't buy your shit after the first 3-5 times I skipped your shitty ad, I'm not going to buy it. In fact, shoving your ad in my face even more just makes certain that I NEVER buy it.

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Ads ARE the problem: Everything else is a symptom. Society needs to figure out a better mechanism of promoting products: Empower search systems and stop gimping filters, to let people find exactly what they want. Let people TELL companies what they like instead of spying on people to figure what they want: You can't ever get it right anyway!