I appreciate that it's easy to misconstrue what I said as a personal attack on you, but I was actually talking about the "you" as in any of the audience. If it doesn't apply to you, great! Let's keep it that way.

In keeping with the guidelines of this website, I think it's fair to not immediately resort to personal attacks as a retaliation for a perceived slight.

As for the rest of your reply: I have not and continue to not get reliable statistical information that outlines exactly how ads help businesses. Mostly because the people that work in the ad industry just don't really seem to care about accurate numbers. If they did, it seems to me they would invest a bit more time and effort into understanding what makes a measurement accurate and how you make such a measurement.

That then neatly ties into your claim that basically every business I know wouldn't exist without advertising, which I would classify as the kind of extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. Of which there is none.

As for the claim that I am all "uppity": If that means questioning when people do things that I see as wrong, I think that is a virtue.