You hate them on television. You hate them on the radio. The internet is full of them as well, and you hate them there too. Ads, ads, ads! The bane of “free” content ever since there was content. Means to block advertising have been around since we could tape record broadcast radio or TV shows. But not all advertising is seen as a scourge upon civilization. Some ads could be considered more important than the content they accompany, such as the recent ad surge during football's Super Bowl.

When is advertising bad and when it is good? Should we block advertising or can we all just get along and coexist peacefully?

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