> essentially lying to encourage you to do something you probably don't need to. That's the best case scenario. More often than not, advertisers are actively

> essentially lying to encourage you to do something you probably don't need to. That's the best case scenario. More often than not, advertisers are actively malicious. By that, I mean they are attempting to manipulate people into taking actions that are actively damaging to their health/finances/etc in order to enrich the advertisers. The fact that this is so accepted by society that hundreds of billions of dollars are spent doing it each year is absolutely repulsive.