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I agree with your analysis, just am a bit less negative about it: if we don't pay directly, sites have to earn in other ways. Native advertising can be ok if it is made clear what it is (yes that often goes wrong) and is done with some editorial integrity (that really is possible!).

I am sympathetic because I see there a big gray area. As KDE volunteer I occasionally wrote articles about KDE for magazines. Obviously I didn't get paid - they got free content to put ads around, I got to promote my project. And lwn editors get travel and hotel support to visit events and write about them. This, too, is money to promote those events.

And then there is the thing where a journalist is involved in or just a fan of a project - that makes them less than neutral too.

Yes those things are different. But not THAT different. And they can be done right and without horrible side effects. I think the same goes for native advertising. It can be a disaster, abused. But not always I think