Imagine having to regulate this, and what it means of the the advertisers and the streaming services that allow it...
Yet more proof that advertising is psychological assault and advertisers are malicious entities.
Block ads for your data safety, your sanity and your comfort level in your own home. Feel no remorse for a morally-bankrupt industry riddled with scammers and grifters. Anything that would be lost in the absence of advertising was not worth having in the first place.
By this definition anyone talking to you is socialy manipulating you. Manipulation is an every day part of life and it's not healthy to try and avoid it as it means you must cut off all social interaction.
There is a beauty in how humans can impact other humans in how they act and think. How they choose to group up. What they spend their time doing. Working together to accomplish things. Helping each other.
Your first paragraph is a good point worth making, worth being aware of, and I agree (or at least mostly agree).
I love the poetic nature of your second paragraph, and also agree. But it feels a very large distance from the topic and nature of advertising, at least as far as I experience it today.
Yet more proof that advertising is psychological assault and advertisers are malicious entities.
Block ads for your data safety, your sanity and your comfort level in your own home. Feel no remorse for a morally-bankrupt industry riddled with scammers and grifters. Anything that would be lost in the absence of advertising was not worth having in the first place.