I want to agree with you, but you only think you're not seeing ads. Obviously, the SEO corruption has made everything you search for distorted by irresistible economic incentives of tilting the search results and search engine in favor of promoters.
Ads solve the discovery problem. Without ads, people still try to solve the discovery problem and try to get your attention. Are those methods still ads?
examples?
I don't think we need ads for discovery, I see it more as a nefarious way to occupy space in people's conscious.
How exactly does that work for virtual products?
Who here never browsed a product or company catalog they found, just because they were curious?
But as sibling comment said, if it's really good, people will find it eventually.
Frankly, they should be illegal. If a physical store did that in Canada, it certainly would be. I'm surprised Canada hasn't reacted to these overabundant fake-product ads.
