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You're right, but there is a solution: make online marketing worthless. Install an ad blocker.

>>coldpi+(OP)
I think you miss my point. Even if online advertising (as well as marketing, but that's a different concept) was completely worthless, the number of paid dollars would not go up, and the "total GDP" of the internet would go down.

If that's a desired future we should be honest about it, but it's a future without as many independent journalists who can't afford a team to sell their content, for example.

>>coldpi+(OP)
What is already happening is that ads get embedded in the content.

Paid content, product placement, YouTubers pitching Audible book related to video.