Great reason not to own a TV and not to allow yourself to be exposed to any ads and to put an ad-blocker on your browser.
"Think for yourself" also means defending yourself against insidious manipulation.
Somehow anon sensed something nefarious coming out of the ad industry from a very young age. Like, the first time anon saw one of the very first TVs in the neighborhood around 1960.
So blessed that God put a revulsion of being manipulated into anon from the youngest age.