Sources of Noise and Cognitive Pollution

Some notable pollutants (some of them lesser-known) in urban areas:

1. Car security alarms. They are really loud. In India, honking on roads or reverse-gear alarms in residential areas take the cake as well.
   
   
2. Cell phone ring tones: both the incoming call ring tones (some are really bizarre), and the "hello tunes". The "hello tune" is a song or music piece or the voice of your child which you hear when you call someone, instead of the usual canonical ring-ring, ring-ring.
   
   
3. Music in malls, public spaces, LCD screens in restaurants and public transport terminals.
   
   
4. Billboards by the side of the road, hoardings, small-sized billboards on every street light, small posters in trains, buses, backs of buses, sides of buses, taxis, etc.
   
   
5. Advertising in newspapers, magazines, pay channels on TV, and so on.
   
   
6. People talking loudly on their cellphones in public spaces.
   
   
7. Heavy bass music being showed off by car owners cruising on a busy street.
   
   
8. Loud motorcycles (some with modified exhausts), and in India: auto-rickshaws.
   
   
9. Loudspeakers at places of worship, during religious ceremonies at home and at wedding celebrations. They are illegal in big cities, but not in small-town India, where protesting against them is considered anti-social.
   
   
10. Advertisements which take your time and which you cannot avoid, e.g. at the beginning of a film in a theater, trailers at the beginning of a DVD, the front page of a newspaper having a full-page ad, etc.

How many of these do you protest against? Or is moving to a rural or sparsely-populated setting the only alternative which can promise a respite to this aural and cognitive overload?