> And people who object to advertising live in a world in which their daily lives are provided for by companies that depend on advertising to exist.

"We should improve society somewhat."

"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"

> Advertising has been around since Ancient Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago and will be around in 5,000 more years.

Someone probably made the same argument about slavery hundreds of years ago, but here we are.

Wikipedia isn't funded by ad revenue. Kagi isn't funded by ad revenue. Anna's Archive isn't funded by ad revenue. The Internet Archive isn't funded by ad revenue. You can torrent all the knowledge you'll ever need and all you need is an internet connection.

I think we would be fine without ads.