Advertising and YouTube Sponsorships Advertising many people believe themselves to be immune to, they never actually buy stuff from the TV when they say “call now and get a second absolutely free”, they skip ads, they ignore the billboards on the side of roads because they are responsible drivers. Ads just don't affect them, or so they think, this assumption comes from the misunderstanding that ads are there for you to buy stuff, this is simply wrong. What ads do is they persist, and persist, and persist. You may think you've forgotten a product, forgotten an ad, but when you pass by the store shelves your neural wires have already been trained, you recognize that what you've never seen, or so you think. Ads are inherently manipulative and because of that I've tried to make a wall, nay, a fortress around myself, in the form of ad blockers, sponsor blockers, I turn off the internet when using my phone so ads cant play when I don't want them too, I put effor...