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My sentence, in a very loose sense is an advertisement for my ideas. I think the concept can be stretched too far.

That's a pretty loose definition of an advertisement, particularly in the context of this conversation.

If I sense that these so-called ads are lowering my quality of life—absolutely.

Not all ads are equal. I am willing to bet that every single app they were referring to had much more egregious advertising than HN does.

Your comment comes across as disingenuous.

I think by this point in time, most people who are taking an active effort to remove advertising from their lives are well aware that the concern with "ads" isn't primarily about the requirement to see ads - it's the privacy-consuming infrastructure behind them.

Not to mention the attention-stealing flashing lights and popping up over the thing you want to see and all the other ways to make you think about something against your will.