[jancsika]

> Comparing advertising and marketing to the ownership of human beings?

That's not exactly what happened here.

OP repeated the beginning of a truism: "ads fund the development of the web while at the same time causing a whole host of severe problems for its users (individually and as a whole)."

OP left a hole where the italized part of the truism should be.

OP asked HN to fill that hole.

On a side devoted to tech/software, it's either low effort or bad-faith to ask others to fill a hole in such a well-known truism.

In light of this I offer up a countervailing law, "Loki's Law:"

"If you leave a Hitler-sized hole in your argument, expect it to be filled accordingly."