Why do I get the sense that the advertising industry has a death wish. It's like there is periodically some secret meeting somewhere where they hatch plans for

Why do I get the sense that the advertising industry has a death wish. It's like there is periodically some secret meeting somewhere where they hatch plans for how they can get even the littlest old lady to hate them so much that they run ad blockers on everything and everywhere. BTW, I have always wondered why there are seemingly no solutions for blocking ads on a regular old TV, even if it's just a matter of muting the ads and then unmuting for the show/movie. I remember I used to have a TV that you could easily set a timer on a channel when a commercial block started and then flip through the other channels and once the timer was up it would automatically switch back to the channel with the show or movie you were wanting to watch. I get that that's not technologically very advanced, but the point is that that was many years ago and it's really not gotten better and even such simple solutions have disappeared and now we are left with highly sophisticated systems that will not allow for easy adding of ad blockers.