<i>There is a BIG problem with the current model of the advertising industry. It&#x27;s based on STEALING attention from people. This is an outstanding lack of respect.</i><p>Not only that, but because advertising IS effective, it&#x27;s like a trojan horse for your brain.<p>Turn your head and look in the wrong place, see an effective advert, and you are more likely to give your money to one company and less likely to another. And you probably don&#x27;t even know it consciously - and you certainly haven&#x27;t made the decision taking into account whether the company&#x27;s wider actions make it one you want to support or not.<p>Advertising is an exploit. And like we close exploitable holes in software, like we try to guard against fallacious reasoning or biases in important decision making, we should also guard against exploitable holes in our thought processes when it comes to advertising.<p>We know advertising works, we know it makes people buy things based on what feels good&#x2F;safe&#x2F;trustworthy coming from a company with a good marketing department, rather than what&#x27;s in a person&#x27;s own interest. We know it works - <i>that&#x27;s why</i> it shouldn&#x27;t be allowed. <i>Because</i> it works.<p>And why we, individually, should block it aggressively.