No. Perfect advertising will convince you to buy the advertiser's product, regardless of what that is. This is the mindset described in the original article.

No. Perfect advertising will convince you to buy the advertiser's product, regardless of what that is. This is the mindset described in the original article. You're describing perfect advertising for you. Even if the ads were limited to a topic you deemed relevant, the advertisers would still essentially lie (or elide truths). E.g., they'd show you good deals on hotels in Vietnam without bothering to mention that people are regularly knifed in those hotels, or that they have bedbugs, etc., etc. Perfect advertising for the informed consumer would be a list of objective specs that can be compared between similar classes of products, allowing the consumer to choose the best product within their budget, needs, etc. If you're a company that produces an inferior product, how would you advertise it in that scenario? Reduce the selling price, or lie, lie, lie?