Company spends millions hiring reporters, photographers, editors, webmasters, etc and then wants you do see a few ads. Oh the horror.
Lots of companies spend money to run their business and have an online presence. It doesn't give you an automatic "success" pass. It also doesn't give you immunity from people laughing at you and ceasing to use your service when you do something idiotic.
It's not about the ads for many; it's the tracking and data-sucking.