I never said advertising doesn't work on me, I said advertising can't work on me because I have taken extensive steps to rid it from my life (as well as the inefficient media platforms that allow its existence. Even without ads, theres no reason for television or radio to exist anymore). And if you're extending the definition of "advertising" to include information you're actively seeking out, or other people naturally mentioning the existence of something in conversation, you've taken the word beyond any sort of useful meaning.

All of my hobbies and interests are either so specific that advertising is irrelevant (ie, there is one standard that literally everyone uses, and no competitors exist), or ones for which advertising would not be financially useful (there is no business model for advertising any sort of open source software. And I don't buy any sort of intellectual "property", if its not free to begin with I pirate it, and if I can't pirate it I don't use it)

The parrot example is obsolete in numerous ways (as is your industry in general). VHS tapes were hard to pirate, because a large portion of the cost was in the physical media and because repeated copying degraded them. There would have been no naturally free alternative because there was no such thing as free video hosting (some places had public access television, but the odds of one person in your particular town having that interest and caring enough to talk about it at length on TV, and you happening to see it at the time, would be pretty tiny). And at the time, there probably would have been only 1 or 2 magazines in the world for that hobby, and because they were print media, their operating costs would have been immense, meaning they could never operate without either ads or exorbitant subscriptions (or, typically, both), and theres no such thing as adblock for paper. The only people who would buy such a product today, or even hear of its existence, would be the elderly, and hopefully they're not buying a parrot that'll likely outlive them.