I can see how my comment could be interpreted to mean no advertising at all but that wasn't my intent. I was more thinking about how apps surreptitiously manipu

I can see how my comment could be interpreted to mean no advertising at all but that wasn't my intent. I was more thinking about how apps surreptitiously manipulate your engagement (frequency + duration) with them. On the point of advertising though, if advertising focused entirely on factual information around features and benefits, I'd consider that a win. Kind of like how it used to be before Edward Bernays and similar thinkers came along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays