[wheaties]

Advertising is a necessary part of selling a product. Selling a product is a necessary part of being profitable. Why hate on that? Way better than waste-my-time Farmville or an enhanced "like" button. Adtech actually helps commerce.

[macavity23]

Many products succeed with zero advertising.

[ojr]

Facebook stock value is doing well and it is because many products are using it to advertise

[shostack]

And they are by far the exception and not the rule.

Too many fall into the "Field of Dreams" fallacy thinking that if you build it, they will come. Most of the time it doesn't work like that.