My city (and several others I've lived in) strongly restrict the amount of advertising that can be put in its center and is thus a much more pleasant place than

My city (and several others I've lived in) strongly restrict the amount of advertising that can be put in its center and is thus a much more pleasant place than many other cities I've visited. So there are "adblocks" in cities, they're just done in a much better way than on the web: the ads aren't created at all instead of forcing citizens to spend time fighting an individual war against them.