Some books just have good titles. And this one is called Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance. From the publisher:

Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back. It diagnoses the problem and offers practical tips for a DIY remedy. Faced with an ad-saturated world, activists are fighting back, equipped with stencils, printers, high-visibility vests, and utility tools. Their aim is to subvert the adverts that control us.

“PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of books and media to educate, entertain, and inspire.”

Really, they had me at the title. But it seems to me that the main way to counter the shit is to teach children from a young age to evaluate the source and quality of information they are taking in, expose themselves to multiple sources of information, think critically, draw their own conclusions, discuss their conclusions with other informed people, and be open minded.

Somewhat related is this new browser plug-in Newsguard, which provides “Trust ratings for all the news sites that account for 95% of engagement” and is “Written by journalists, not secret algorithms.” Sounds okay, although I think I have too many browser plug-ins already.