Advertisers do want people exactly like you

I promise you they don’t.

who will go around telling other people about their product

That’s not what I’m doing and you’d have known that if you paid attention to context rather than automatically apply your generalizations about ad effectiveness where they don’t apply.

You even repeated part of their copy for us, so now we know generally what service they provide

Except the “copy” does NOT in fact disclose that. I’m not gonna (in your mind) prove you right by telling you what they do, but one of the many things they DON’T do is helping people start a business.

if any person reading this doesn’t hold the same lack of regard for corporate interests as you

What kind of contrarian idiot would read this far down a thread specifically about hating ads for product recommendations? Other than yourself, of course.

Advertising is ~little more than~ corporate propaganda

Fixed it for you

you are not immune to propaganda.

Nobody inherently is, but that doesn’t mean that ALL propaganda works on ALL people.

The world isn’t a binary like that.