While that’s technically true it’s not true about the current type of advertising. The ads we see online now (and the tracking that goes with it) are what, 20

While that’s technically true it’s not true about the current type of advertising. The ads we see online now (and the tracking that goes with it) are what, 20 years old? The type of marketing and advertising we live with now is a direct descendent of research and work done in the last century (thanks Bernays). The whole point of Google was to get people answers to questions they have. Our current approach to advertising creates the problems in people’s heads only to immediately sell the solution.