> I don't understand why seeing an ad is so bad. Ads are an insidious and highly effective form of psychological warfare. They play on human fears, insecuritie

> I don't understand why seeing an ad is so bad. Ads are an insidious and highly effective form of psychological warfare. They play on human fears, insecurities, neuroses and instinctual weaknesses in order to part people from their hard-earned time and resources. You might say the ads just bring their attention to needs they didn't know they had. I would say the opposite, that they create needs where there none existed to begin with.