[Night_Thastus]

Always a joy to see efforts in the ongoing battle against advertisements.

There are few things I feel radical about, and Ads are one of them. I believe they are a drain in several ways:

They waste computational resources and electricity on both ends. They compromise the visual design and layout of webpages. They distract and take mental energy away from the user. They make the internet (and anywhere ads exist) more "ugly" and less aesthetically pleasing - which negatively impacts mental health. They often sell low-quality services/products or outright scams, which harms those least educated and poorest individuals.

Death to advertisement! On billboards! On television! On the internet!

Ads are a parasite on the human mind that need to go away, forever.

[Terr_]

Ultimately it's about where we draw the line for hacking other people's brains.

It's a spectrum: Some level is an unavoidable part of communication ("I like dogs" forces you to think of dogs) some more is considered normal and traditional manipulation ("My food smells nice, that makes you hungry, wanna buy?") and then it goes on into grey-areas, scams, and eventually to potential extremes like "this image induces nausea" or "this sound knocks you out".

[btbuildem]

They are a scourge and a tell-tale sign that we've grown far beyond excess and into absurd territory where more effort is spent on bending our minds to consume a thing that it took to make the thing in the first place.

[CatWChainsaw]

Careful, apparently not wanting your mind polluted with psychological manipulation makes you a filthy communist..

[p3rls]

Death to small media companies! You should have gotten some VC money if you wanted to make products for people, you poor pieces of shit.