Ads are only money sources because reasons. I can sound "boomer" but I dont consider ads a good thing, if you put ads on your YouTube or twitch or whatnot you dont care about your audience and egoist that you want to make money to the detriment of wasting people time on such "immoral" practice, you are asking to waste near year of time just so you can have an extra 1000$.
More than 99% you cant trust an ads of selling an object or an apps because its always grossly bent truth, misinformation, unsourced and tested claims, paid actors of testimonials or gain during the use of said product.
So why should I even care a little about ads? Just because they give money is not enough of a reason.
They are most of the time blantly ridiculous, scammy if not outright immoral and near illegal. And we accept that? I just dont get it.
I see and bombarded by ads and name of company all the time, just seeing one's name is not going to make buy from you, in the opposite, im going to look for competitors in the same branch or just ignore because its not something i care
I actually want to thank you for this response to my post because you really have revealed the source of the problem here. You have taken your own personal preferences, annoyances and dislikes and projected them as the standard reaction across the board. As I posted earlier, advertising is a numbers game. You present your ad to a large group of people and, while some of them (such as yourself) can be turned off by those ads, you get enough people to consider buying your product/service to make the investment worthwhile.
Ads are "blantly ridiculous, scammy if not outright immoral and near illegal" as you put it, because
it works. If it didn't work with a large enough portion of the population, then advertisers wouldn't invest the money in it.
You are only a singular individual. As am I. As is any single, isolated person on this forum. Looking at advertising from the perspective of a single person is to miss the forest for the trees. At the risk of being repetitious, advertising is a numbers game.
Are ads a good thing? I cannot say with any certainty. What I can say is that they are in integral part of the business model that currently controls where and how monetary resources get funneled to content creators. To use a strange metaphor, it's kind of like asking someone suffering from allergies is the fact that plants can produce pollen is a good or bad thing. They, as an individual, may hate or inconvenienced/harmed by the situation but that is just the way the world currently works. And, as much as they might prefer otherwise that is just the way things are going to remain until someone fundamentally redesigns the world's ecosystems.
If it makes you feel any better, consider that a large enough number of people have shown an unwillingness to listen/watch internet ads enough to make services like Adblock a thing. That reality has forced many content creators to turn to crowdfunding (patreon, etc.) to obtain the resources they need to make their content. But it also means that a large number of them have found it necessary to use sponsored content, and thus ads placed directly within their content as well as the question of how honest that content can be when it is so directly beholden to a sponsor.
TLDR version: You as an individual may hate advertising, but you are only a single plot point on the bell curve advertisers look at when it comes to selling their products. Unless and until a new paradigm is designed to obtain resources for content creators, ads remain a necessary evil in the system. If you want to complain about how you find ads to be dishonest, scammy, or borderline illegal, that is your prerogative. Hell, I can name any number of ads that I would prefer to see disappear because of their annoyance factor alone. But, if you wanted an explanation of
why those advertisements exist in the first place, I have attempted to explain it as best I can.
Side Note: As for the "asking you to pay pennies" concept you mentioned, that is also a numbers game. Yes, it is only a couple of cents per viewer, but remember that is modelled on the "per viewer" part of the equation. Looking at it solely from your perspective as an individual, it makes little sense. But when you take a step back and look at it from the perspective of someone attempting to reach out to thousands (if not millions) of viewers, that very low rate quickly adds up to sizable amounts.
Anyways, enough of the inner adjunct instructor in me for now. I just hope the explanation I have provided makes some sense to you. Please note that I am not asking you to
like what is going on with ads, merely that I am trying to make the answer as to
why they exist, intelligible.
