In this day and age the only way you will not get advertisement,is to get rid of all electronic devise newspapers magazines,and move to Nanavut and live in an igloo.
Does an inability to avoid all advertisements mean we shouldn't try to avoid any? The funny thing is, using a browser that has an ad-blocking extension installed, the only ads I remember seeing today on my computer were the pop-up ads from AVAST.
I'm not saying advertisements are evil, I'm just saying on a device I've paid for using a connection I've paid for, I'd like a little break. So, when you've got two anti-virus software packages, and one is going to shove advertisements at me several times a day, popping up over anything else I might be doing, and another won't, I'm going with the one that won't.
You can also avoid most ads on devices if you get the right ones. The ipod classic doesn't have ads (Though some of the other variants do). You can get a Kindle that has no ads built in and only features whatever is in the back of the book (Costs a little extra).
A lot of people have DVRs that let them skip ads (I can't afford a DVR, but others can).
But, you're right, ads are shoved down our throats a lot of the time. We have a choice in anti-virus software, though, so I've decided to go with the one without the ads and take a little commercialization out of my day.
It's sad to see AVAST reduced to this level of crassness. When I started using it, the only ad was in the program itself and relatively unobtrusive. Now it has several pop-up ads a day. And what are they are all telling people? That the free version isn't the right anti-virus program for their needs. So, in addition to shoving ads down my throat, AVAST is telling me their free product is no good. Made it easier to look elsewhere.
I will miss some of their features like the boot-time scan, though.