All the things you reference serve a purpose for the user. There's a whole field about how to design them, etc. Ads are not designed or deployed to serve the u

All the things you reference serve a purpose for the user. There's a whole field about how to design them, etc. Ads are not designed or deployed to serve the user. Are you seriously saying the average ad you see is optimized to provide you useful information? When did you last see a Tide commercial cite the studies that showed it cleans the best? Ads are designed, bought, placed and engineered to interrupt your thought process and direct it elsewhere, then present information that's optimized to make you remember and select that product. Sometimes (in proportion, rarely) that information happens to be useful, but it was still presented in via psychosocial dark patterns.