There would be next to nothing available in the way of what we call 'media' ... period.
We'd still have some Movies ... though probably a lot less of them given that product placement has become an obvious funding source for many movies these days as well ... and the fact that 'advertisements' are how many people find out about movies to begin with ... and if not there, then in some other media format that relies on advertising revenue ... basically without adverts there'd be way fewer.
Same goes with books ... we'd pretty much have academic books only, because without advertisement, nobody would know about new 'fun' books being released.
And there'd be next to no TV shows, obviously.
Course we'd have message boards ... but very to little to talk about because nearly every story we ever read is ultimately being paid for by ... yup ... advertisers.
And there be could stuff like 'netflix' and 'hulu', but again ... the amount of content would be a joke, because like 95% of what they 'show' ... would never have even been made if not for advertisements.
I agree that it's garbage that we pay exorbitant cable fees for the privilege of getting to watch a shitton of adverts, but when I get right down to it ... I'm glad for them. We just 'beat the system' by fast-forwarding or at the least muting and looking away when ads come on.
But like I say there'd be a tiny fraction of the quality entertainment that exists in the world now if it weren't for these execs failing to figure out that advertisements just don't work or produce positive cash flow.
And this is obvious because we all know how everyone in the USA is so smart and so NOT easily manipulated into doing ANYthing by TPTB.
Not at all implying I don't respect your decision to 'stand firm' cause I do, but ... if your thought process was everybody's, I'd not have squat to watch/read/listen to, so ... I'm glad it doesn't 
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