I suspect you are being downvoted because you are wrong (&quot;all ads are bad&quot; is a pretty extreme position. There are numerous examples I can think of where they are pretty useful. For example I&#x27;m interested if a band I&#x27;m listening to is coming to town, etc etc..)<p>Additionally your points are badly argued. I can&#x27;t follow your argument that advertising is a get rich scheme at all. You seem to be arguing that advertising makes people offer dodgy business models, but the two don&#x27;t seem to relate at all. For example one area where buyer hostile business models is very common is in enterprise software, and those sales rely very little on advertising and instead on relationships.<p>In summary, your complaints about being downvoted seem unjustified.