Not all advertising is manipulation. The convo is going nowhere because you are No True Scotsmanning the definition of "advertisement".
If you're dropping a name of a product or service and describe anything about it to appeal to others, you are definitionally advertising.
Society can always collapse further.
Until people are fighting their neighbors with sticks and stones with no power or gas or internet for the dregs of the least-collapsed house in the region, it can always get worse.