Re: Typical of the advertising industry
"Ads are lies and corporate propaganda. They can literally never be ethical."
I think they can. There are companies that make good products and if they don't advertise, how will you know they exist? The problem is simply the ad version of Gresham's Law, that bad advertising drives out good. But without advertising you would have to visit a dedicated shop for everything, and that means shelf space would only be given to the products that made the most money for the shop - not the best.
In print media, the UK is far better than the US in this regard.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
