That's the risk I take, after all, assuming the role of consumer and wandering off to do battle with the merchants of, um, mercantilism. But I do have a problem with going places where these messages just shouldn't be - places like schools, and universities, and hospitals, and other public places. For starters, it's not the purpose of any of these public institutions to shill for a money-making enterprise. The schools ought to be teaching children how to be more viligant against, not more susceptible to, the evils of insidious advertising. All the people.
Public spaces are for all the people too.
The disease has spread everywhere. When Shoreline Amphitheatre first opened, you had to look pretty hard to find an indication that the city of Mountain View, or Bill Graham, had sold out to moneyed interests. The place looked like a general-purpose civic event locale. As laughable as it seems today, rock'n'roll used to pride itself on its independence from the forces of greed and advertising. Our public spaces, it seems, have been sold.