To me this makes an excellent argument for taxation rather than banning. People do occasionally find advertising useful. The problem is not the existence of a

To me this makes an excellent argument for taxation rather than banning. People do occasionally find advertising useful. The problem is not the existence of advertising, it is the amount of it. In medicine, it is the dose that makes the difference between a useful medicine and a poison. If we had about 95% less advertising volume in our lives, people wouldn't be so upset about it. And the remaining 5% of ads would need to be better (more useful, more entertaining, more pertinent) to compete in a reduced ecological niche.