i) You can only use factual information.
ii) You can't use visual props unrelated to the product (sexy women, beaches, fancy cars, spas)
But to burn advertisements due to shortcomings is like hating/shutting down internet because of 4chan or QAnon
Now, this is simplified, they don't get to bear all the blame, and there are worse industries, but we better reform them fast, and radically.
But as I said, the vast vast majority of advertising by any measure you chose to use is of the manipulative kind, not informative. And this despite the existence of truth-in-advertising laws for decades.
And banning advertising is not even that harmful to industry - we have the case study of the tabacco industry, which didn't exactly die away once advertising of all of its products was entirely prohibited in all wealthy countries.
E-commerce: people are looking for the best deal. You pay google to “show up first” and capitalize on brand awareness once they see your competitors. The customer is going to think, “ah nice, at least it’s on Amazon in case all these other stores are too sketchy.” The other stores probably play a better SEO game than Amazon because /they have to to survive/ while Amazon merely throws money at the problem to capitalize on the brand.
Now, the biggest problem with advertising is that it is an arms race. If your competitors are advertising and you are not, or are investing significantly less than them, you're very unlikely to remain competitive for long (assuming the products are even vaguely similar in quality).
Banning advertising would collapse industries or reduce market size and limit any expansion efforts.
Why? If I go to a hardware store and see a new power tool on the shelves that looks sturdy and costs less than the existing ones, why would I not buy it, or at least look for reviews on it?
Edit: this would be especially true in the longer term, as consumers start forgetting the marketing and there are no more "premium brands". In the near term after a ban, the older advertising still holds some sway, which of course creates a disadvantage for new brands. Still, a small price to pay for making the market more rational.
You can't. I don't understand how so many engineers can't do basic logic.
Now, there are situations where this is more ambiguous, and in general any display of a company's products or brands, especially one that is not critical, is suspect of being advertisement for that brand.
I'm not even sure how you can even claim that there is any sort of ambiguity between, say, The Raven and a Super Bowl commercial.
You completely dodge my point because it's a stake in the vampire heart of your non sequiturs.