[cdecl]

> I find all advertising to be the sort of implicit-mugging the grandparent is describing.

Unfortunately, it's a useful thing that people have used to prey on our inquisitive simian brains.

Personally, I'm in favor of doing things like banning billboards &c, but it's hard to draw a line on banning advertising in general.

[spencerflem]

I think I'd be willing to extend it to all forms paid advertising that you are forced to see in the course of doing something else.