Advertising is the root of all evil.

Driver of overconsumption.

Keeping us hooked on social media feeds.

Targeting children, making them use addictive products.

Making everything more expensive (because we are paying for the ads eventually).

Collecting our data.

Sometimes allowing malware to be installed on our systems.

Frustrating the idea that the best product should win; instread the one with the biggest advertising budget wins.

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I don’t mind the occasional Burma Shave type ad, or this program brought to by Acme Brand Powdered Soap.

Anything that stalks, snoops, tracks, profiles, personifies, “shares”, coerces, scams, scans, or sells any of the aforementioned should be illegal and considered with broad definitions. Minimally jail time for destroying generations of culture.

100%

That's why I go to a lot of effort to block as much of it as possible for myself and my family, and to some extent, extended family and friends.

Advertising is a gross perversion of 'service' and a symptom of Uber-capitalism. It is psychological manipulation.