Why I Work on Ads
As the person who originally asked &quot;why&quot; I feel like I ought to respond, though much of it is covered by other comments. I used to work in more trad advertising, so my question wasn&#x27;t so much an objection to working in advertising itself, but specifically Google&#x27;s version of advertising, which I see as gross overreach into people&#x27;s personal lives.<p>In other comments people have mentioned YouTube subscriptions as being an alternative, it really isn&#x27;t - OK, you don&#x27;t see any adverts, but they&#x27;re still harvesting and selling you. That a privately owned corporation is allowed to read your messages and sell what they find to the highest bidder is vile and honestly makes me wonder how we got here.<p>I quit advertising after only a couple of years because it blackened my soul. If I was helping to harvest people&#x27;s personal lives for private profit I can only imagine it would have been worse.