the horror of highway billboards only subtracted minutely the billions wasted on roads to satisfy a manufactured need totally unnecessary given that the previous century had mass transit solved as it evolved with cities built for people not cars. And that model was trashed thanks to relentless adds targeting the soft underbelly of society, docile consumers. [the accent is on con] As for the internet I was an entrepreneur in publishing for 4 years running my own website [now orphaned and hijacked by another entity advertising itself as a solution to manufactured problems that may or may not be real] without adds. I asked my clientele what they thought re: adds they all hated them. Or the click crap that infests other sites. Or FB friends who voluntarily let adds infect their message. We can be independent. We are independent. Let us not get conned by those who’se agenda is theirs and not ours.