Comment by barnabee

> Advertising has a purpose; it's how I find out what products and services are available, and at what cost.

When I am unable to avoid it (which I’m relatively successful at), it’s how I explicitly decide what to avoid. See an ad, penalise the company.

But yet I have no trouble finding and evaluating products when I actually need something.

Search engines, real and virtual marketplaces, word of mouth, reviews all exist already, and all can work without paid shenanigans.

There’s no need to replace advertising, we can just ban it.