From Apple to Yahoo: a list of tech companies that hated advertising (Elon, take note)

A disdain for advertising doesn’t seem to last long in the big tech scene.
Elon Musk does not have a love-hate attitude toward advertising: he hates it. At least, that’s what he said – on Twitter, of course – back in 2019: “I hate advertising.”
This may be a curious attitude for a new media mogul whose most recent acquisition – that same Twitter – is almost entirely ad-supported.
But it turns out that Musk is not alone. The history of major ad plat