Hamilton Holt's excellent 1909 lecture, "Commercialism and Journalism", available from the Internet Archive, addresses most of the modern complaints against advertising, at a time when it was just beginning to massively re-shape (and, to be fair, enable) the modern media landscape.
* It's intrusive.
* It's distracting.
* It promotes a host of anti-usability features
* It's creepy, and you're creeping me out.
* Ads themselves price-discriminate -- though how and when I can never be certain
* The mechanisms of advertising networks pose security issues
* The goods and services which are most highly advertised are those which I'm least inclined to buy.
* It's not relevant.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24107v/forbes_...
Adding to the above, from four years ago, I've since realised that advertising:
* Promotes crap content.
* Kills quality content.
* Undermines truth and liberal democracy. Supports and sustains demagoguery, fascism, and institutional oppression.
See Dwight McDonald, "A Theory of Mass Culturei" (https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...) (1953) (PDF), Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totaltarianism (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=arendt%20origins%20tota...), and Gerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television* (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Mander+arguments+elimin...), for starters.
Hamilton Holt's excellent 1909 lecture, "Commercialism and Journalism", available from the Internet Archive, addresses most of the modern complaints against advertising, at a time when it was just beginning to massively re-shape (and, to be fair, enable) the modern media landscape.
https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holt