I don't think so. If you want to actively find stuff there are ways to do it, like going to a tech show near you.
Businesses survived before advertising was as crazy as it is today, so we can tune it down a _lot_ before bad things start happening to businesses in general.
I never said we have to take an extremist position wrt ads. If we can allow 1% ads for tech shows, and confine the remainder of 99% ads to special places like Yellow Pages and tech shows, that's a huge win.
Businesses survived before advertising was as crazy as it is today, so we can tune it down a _lot_ before bad things start happening to businesses in general.