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What was the last time you clicked on an ad?
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Did you stop because it affects your algorithm, it costs them money, or another reason?
Companies need money to survive. Not every company should survive though.
It is like mosquitos - I bear them no malice, and they are part of the food web too. I still swat them if then bite me. I am also okay with mosquito-cide on a mass scale.
Symbiosis and Mutualism are great, but advertising as it is practiced 99.99999% of the time today is Parasitic, and I don't want to encourage it any further.