Spot on. The concept of advertising is completely outdated. If you look at how advertising began in the first place, it began as a way for for people to discover new products. Back in the day, that was not bad. Not today. Today there is absolutely no need to hammer you with information. There are easy and affordable means to get whatever information you want. So yeah, advertising is another 'inherited money making crap' that we are just living with.

I really hope Netflix disrupts this in some way and not become another engine for bombarding users with ads.