It's not like I enjoy advertisement. But this description seems extremely hyperbolic.

It's a few images. Some of them move, which is annoying.

Rarely, they have sound, which is unacceptable.

There's apparently a lot of tracking going on in the background, yet I haven't seen any creepy personal ads, nor do I know of any effects outside of the ads themselves this tracking could have on my life.

People often mention security problems, and those may sometimes have occurred. Yet I haven't had any malware infection in 15 years+, and have never installed any antivirus software that didn't come with the OS.

If advertisement is nefariously "manipulating our emotions" I guess we're lucky in that they suck at it.

Personally, I'm far more annoyed by TV advertisement.

It's also nothing like "rent seeking", as I pointed out in a reply to that comment. "Rent seeking" doesn't just mean "economic activity I don't like".

I'm not denying that I would enjoy the world slightly more without ads, all other things being equal. But denying that there's something of a trade-off to be considered is simply intellectually dishonest.

And once you take stock of these competing interests, I believe there's a "bad case scenario" that is more likely than not to become reality, in which the loss far outweighs any gains.