Quote Originally Posted by Delsus View Post
If it annoys people so much use for example supermarket own brands, but as people are not doing this the mass advertising is widely accepted, we can do something about it if it really bothers us.
Except, unfortunately, it's not as binary as "Do they advertise? Yes/No." There are a good deal of other factors to consider, such as quality of product. Often those supermarket brands are inferior, which takes you back to buying from people who are advertising.

Personally, though, I don't get annoyed at individual advertisers. I get annoyed that there is advertising at all. Everyone in this thread is annoyed by RMT spam, but how many of us are actually reading the spam? I don't know about the rest of you, but I just see gibberish and /blist. At no point could I tell you what they're saying, what site they're from, or what rates they're offering. Same with commercials in other media. I blank it out until I can skip it, for the most part.