I agree on a personal level, although at a societal level I believe regulation is required.

As per the parent comment to my original one, I just fundamentally do not believe that most advertising contributes anything positive to society and mostly generates negative externalities.

The argument for advertising is that it's so difficult for a new entrant to a market to challenge an entrenched incumbent, unless they can advertise.

I honestly don't know if that argument holds water.

Intuitively, I'd say it doesn't hold water: Entrenched incumbents would generally tend to have more money than new competitors, so the incumbent can afford more advertising to drown out that of the challenger.

The only net gain I can see is for the advertising industry, which extracts money from both challenger and incumbent.

It isn't available on all plateform utube is unfortunately.