You bring up good points. But the reason I've always had an issue with ads is much different: the only people who can afford ads in the right places are the on

You bring up good points. But the reason I've always had an issue with ads is much different: the only people who can afford ads in the right places are the ones who are already big. In other words, it is extremely unfair. The people who could really use an ad on a TV don't have money to afford it. It's a perverse kind of system that somehow we just accepted without every questioning it.