You're missing so much in this analysis - the big advertising companies do much more than show ads - they stalk you in excruciating detail, they resell your pri

You're missing so much in this analysis - the big advertising companies do much more than show ads - they stalk you in excruciating detail, they resell your private life information to untold abusers who try to gain advantage from you. Taking advantage of you, by manipulating your mind is one of the basic premises of ads. In some ideal 'fair' world ads would just present information for you to make rational choices - but nope, the reality is the ads industry is based on emotional/psychological manipulation. If you seek to understand you can research about the evolution of the industry since the time of Freud where they co-opted psychological techniques to sell things by exacerbating people's psychoses. Put another way, your arguments would only make sense if the advertisers played fair but they are abusive and try to trick you. You can't make a fair deal with conniving. The reality of this is so bad that it is destroying our society - at what point is allowing massive scale psychological manipulation/abuse for profit destroying society? My post here is a bit ranty but I get upset at the lack of fair context in the presuppositions of your argument.