Which is exactly the opposite of what I am championing. I want to know when flights to Reykjavik are below $500, because I am going there in March. If my Economist article is supported by ads for PRODUCTS I WANT AND AM CURRENTLY SHOPPING FOR, 100% of my screen real estate is valuable to me. Um. No. I said that the existing form of ads are screen landmines that are dangerous to click on. It is content that I did not ask for that interferes with the content that I did ask for and it does so through imperfect statistics.
Even you, arguing that advertising could theoretically be useful, refer to it as "potential landmines."
Google, the largest advertising organization in the world, will absolutely email you alerts whenever the price for a flight to Reykjavik goes below $500 in March. This thing that you think needs to be pushed at you via advertising is a three-click pull setup from the company that has 41% of the digital marketshare in the world. You're arguing that if your can opener were a better can opener it'd make a better daquiri. My argument is that can openers will never make decent daquiris.