Well yes, the bad ad buying is often done on purpose. In theory I would not have a problem with advertisers wasting money on this, because I figured that by now

Well yes, the bad ad buying is often done on purpose. In theory I would not have a problem with advertisers wasting money on this, because I figured that by now they should be getting outbid by actually competitive ads that promote new value propositions and lower prices rather than pushing brand reinforcement. This has mostly not happened yet though, and I currently doubt it will anytime soon because there is still too much of an advantage to big advertisers that can afford to run campaigns like this... many opportunities there though for folks who know how to trim some of the fat.