[theage]

Insidious perhaps. There is no middle ground of neutral advertising to be had. It's all just pressing upon the pain points of one social sect or another, undermining mental acuity to make 'em feel inadequate or falsely adequate.

I run an adblock app as well so it's hard to begrudge anyone trying to gain undeserved significance for their thing - when some invention is new who is to say what is deserved unless the right people know about it?

Whilst you might be able to block the ads for now you can't block the downslide of polite society that largely accepts the techniques into their lives and keeps them in their back pocket.