Advertisements literally being forced into your eyesight

I come to the beach in SoCal to surf and relax in the company of seals birds and dolphins. There are still plenty, but often accompanied by:

- airplane banner ads

- squadron of some extremely expensive military craft going nowhere for no reason

Funny how as I kid I used to think those would be cool jobs. How jaded and bitter I've become!

Oh and all the willpower it took for me to not raise two middle fingers at that duo of parasailers who kept buzzing and dive bombing the lineup. At least they were out there for fun not profit.

Reminds me of YouTube shorts beta. I pay for family premium YouTube mostly for music, but in part because I don't want to see ads. Now I got this tik tok rip-off eye-level on the home screen with no obvious way to disable it. Still working out the logistics of getting away from the service. Definitely feeling some effects of lock-in. Maybe I'll just put that money into a Bandcamp budget for the family or something.. not seeing ads was always a nice-to-have, but I know ways around that.