Has Commercial Advertisement Taken Over and Ruined Everything? [View all]

[Civic Justice]

One can't even watch the "local" news without every 45 seconds or so, a commercial, that turns into 4 or 5 commercials.
if one read's Yahoo of some of the other web site... they can't even print a story with any substance, and then its a partial paragraph and then a link to 'click to read more", which takes one to another page, filled with advertisements.
The website Cheat Sheet is obsessed with "page clicking", if one wants to see or read what is posted.

Sure, Revenue is needed, that's understandable... but the incessant advertising is absurd. I generally ignore all advertisement, because If I need something, I have an idea of what I need and will go search it out and find out who sells it.

I detest paying cable and having commercials show, because I REMEMBER when cable TV started as Paid Commercial Free" TV... NOW THEY ARE JUST GREEDY.... to the point they saturate the public with insidious commercials. Many are targeted at the people 14-45, anything with people over 45 is probably some "pill commercial", or "medical device". Yet, only doctors can prescribe this stuff, so why advertise it to people in general... they can't buy it over the counter, and if the doctor did not prescribe it they can't get it. So, what the point in the Advertisements. Is it to try and get people to diagnoses themselves?

The irresponsible conduct often seen in commercials, likely has led many people to harm themselves, and in some cases maybe even loose their life. We already know many people claim depression when they can't get the stuff being advertised. We have no regulatory controls on this madness, at some point it has to become regulated. Not only regulated, but if one claims to have content about something specific, they need to have more than just police blotter snag from over the wire.

As a society... how do we address this excessive media saturation with advertising. (short of completely turning off the TV and Computers)
It's also like the madness of site converting their sign on to Facebook....sign in.... I avoid any site that mandates me to use a Facebook log in to access the site. Any site that does not have what the link claims, I close it down right away.

Forums like this is OK, they manage the advertising, so it is not the dominant thing for the visitors to the site.

The point of this post is simply to see if anyone else is "annoyed with the incessant advertisements" ??