There’s a lot of problems with advertising on Google, YouTube, Instagram etc.
And it Incentivises these big tech companies to collect all your data and spy on you etc.
But where should advertisers advertise?
Let’s say everyone switches to Paid for Search, Paid for Email, stops using social media etc.
Where would advertising swith to?
If someone starts a small business from home selling pillows, how do they reach customers?
Seriously. Advertising is worse than a zero sum game. It’s an arms race. Not only does it eat into profits of every company that advertises, it causes prices to go way up to pay for even more advertising. We regular people just keep paying more and more to be advertised to.