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A contrary (and more accurate view) is that advertising suggests things that people don't really need.

Here's a "magical alternative": if you make something the least bit good/useful, people don'e need to be beat over the head with it - they'll find it.

Advertising is vapid, inaccurate, and a blight.

Who pays the costs in lost efficiency, lost productivity, lost time etc for readers to wade through ads to get to content?

Saying something "lowers costs" without considering ALL costs involved is lazy.

Most smart consumers are much less interested in what a company has to say about its own products (embellishment) than about what other people say.

So yeah, advertising is pretty terrible.