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In marketing principles, there are about 20 methods used in advertising, heres a good list and explanation of each:
https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/business-communication/advertising-appeals-overview/
Most of these are manipulative to the audience by creating a need where one didn't exist, then providing the product to fill that need. Of these only three can be used ethically without manipulation:
However even THESE can be misused and distorted in an effort to sell a product.
In short, nearly all modern advertising lacks honesty.
Those businesses would actually prefer not marketing to you either. There's a saying in marketing "I know I'm wasting have my money on advertising. I just don't know which half". If you're being marketed to for a product or service you're not a candidate to consume, thats wasted money for the advertiser. This is one of the reasons that Facebook and Google are so valuable as advertising platforms. They have access to VERY DETAILED information on what does interest you, and advertisers desperately want to reach you with their appeals to their product or service.
Are you actually suggesting bodily violence against people working in advertising or sales?! That is wildly inappropriate if nothing else just based upon basic human rights most nations recognize as "free speech", such as the USA Constitution's 1st amendment.