Wouldn't you have found these products by research, from people sharing the same interests, or through independant reports? Every product I saw through an ad t

Wouldn't you have found these products by research, from people sharing the same interests, or through independant reports? Every product I saw through an ad that looked remotely useful was either unactionable, critically flawed, overpriced or sub-par compared to the rival products. For the harm to society, my go to example would be ad reads on podcasts. There will be products that the hosts of the shows have been personally using for a long time and happens to sponsor the show. Naturally the ad read will be overall positive, but if you followed the host for a while on other shows, it becomes clear that they are more or less stuck with the product for now but are looking for alternatives because of some critical shortcomming. It also means that any discussion surrounding the sponsor's field (other rival products, or problems occuring peripherically to the product) won't be happening. Overall the more relevant the ad becomes, the more perverse effects it generates.