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The reason we're absolutely fucking blasted away with ads is because even if they only have a 0.01% success rate, that's enough to make them super profitable. So if you and 998 other people all pay zero attention to ads, they still make money.
There's also lots of people (like one of my family members) who become absolutely irate by ads but still buy the shit they're shilling anyway.
Advertisers claim that it'll work eventually which is how they can justify companies paying them to display ads, and how they can justify paying for ads on a service like YouTube or even a website. In a sense they are being hung out to dry, many of the big companies seen in ads these days don't actually need to convince you to buy their product because they have an almost complete monopoly on the market, they're only technically not monopolies, so you're going to buy their products anyway or live without the convenience. This is why among other things Ad-funded internet is considered a bubble in a sense, because advertisers are spending money paying websites to show people things they don't think or care about, but somehow this translates into profits? Seems like the only one profiting is the site being paid, and the creator on it.
I'm sure Nestle, Pepsi Co. P&G, CocaCola Bottling Co. Walmart, Amazon, and the other big boys really need to tell others about them or people wouldn't know they exist and buy from them. Get real, these companies have their foot in the door, when it comes to the whole consumers buying from them. You can't not buy from them and live as anyone else would, it takes effort to cut them out, and in many cases living without the convenience they bring.