It's easy to forget that thousands of scientists, researchers and experts are working hard on manipulating every aspect of your psyche so you keep using using their sites, apps and services.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
How long would google, facebook or amazon last after that?
All this tech is great. But we are kidding ourselves if we say we liked advertising or if it benefits anybody except the people putting them up.
advertising is a literal cancer on society. If it was gone even in the simplest of forms so you aren't able to legally see advertising until you turn 21 years old. Or have our kids be able to grow up until they turn 18 without seeing a single advertisement.
Especially big pharma ads!