There's good advertising and bad advertising. Calling all advertising "cancer" is ludicrous. My YouTube subscription feed is full of stuff that is some form of

There's good advertising and bad advertising. Calling all advertising "cancer" is ludicrous. My YouTube subscription feed is full of stuff that is some form of advertising - music instrument retailers demonstrating new products, advertorial content from tool manufacturers, tutorials from software companies and so on. It's all paid for out of the marketing budget, it's all intended to sell more product, but it's also a useful service to me as a consumer. Back in the day, I bought computer and music magazines in large part because of the advertising. It's how I kept up to date with the industry, it's how I learned about new products that weren't necessarily available in my town and it's how I found out the market price for products. How do consumers find out about new products without some form of advertising? How do manufacturers find a market without some form of advertising?