No, advertising is putting information in peoples faces as much as possible even if they are not interested at all.

It's solicited advertising. Something I don't think almost anyone has a problem with.

Unsolicited advertising is what everyone hates.

If I go onto my grocery store website and see "we have a sale on xyz" I'm not bothered because I went to that website to see what they have. I'm also not bothered by sales displays in the store. All forms of acceptable advertising.

But what I absolutely hate is navigating a webpage unrelated to my store and seeing "Did you know you can buy widgets at your local store!" or watching youtube and seeing an unskippable 30 second ad for my store. Or getting a newspaper that is actually just 90% advertisement with 2 paragraphs of actual news.

Can you give an example of "solicited advertising"? I have never heard of such a thing, and can't imagine what it might be.

You search for “Canon cameras” and a search result ad shows you where to buy a Canon camera in your area.

I see - thanks for the explanation. I try to filter out those sorts of ads too, because I don't want my decisions to be biased by the money someone else spends, but they certainly are less annoying than the usual sort.

I wonder whether you would consider ads for fashion houses in a fashion magazine to be "solicited" or "unsolicited"?

Excellent example. Others might include grabbing a brochure for a car or visiting a product webpage (like an iPhone page).

> Can you give an example of "solicited advertising"? I have never heard of such a thing, and can't imagine what it might be.

The only thing I would consider solicited is when I decide that I want to see product information. Everything else is just some chapter from the narcissists prayer: "and if I did, it wasn't that bad"