I can't quickly find the bookmark to the source, but someone had clearly framed how advertising is used towards increasing demand to make production highly profitable via economies of scales but also at the added expense of creating more of a monoculture, a similar problem that exists with agriculture.

I'm planning soon to launch a platform to compete with Twitter/Facebook, and one of the foundational design principles will be having no ads.

"Commercial forces are determining your consciousness - that's the sickest way to develop the human society." - Sadhguru