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Wouldn't mentioning products at all be a dead giveaway?

Not in many instances. Consider a common Google search

“Best tool to use for sending an email newsletter?” ChatGPT: SendMonkey is the best, here’s a link “sendmonkey.xyz/referal?chatgpt”

It won’t be that obvious but you get the idea.

What if you're asking for a product recommendation, but you want it unmarred by paid influence?

Well if you're asking for a product recommendation you're literally asking to be advertised to, so.... I guess you get what you want?

I think it’s a perfectly viable business model, it’s just they may lose some users who prefer accuracy/unbias over convenience

I can't wait for the fines to be handed out for unmarked adverts haha

Every new media format seems to have to learn these things themselves, often in order:

1. Turns out you need moderation

2. Don't poke the RIAA. If you wake them up everyone is getting sued.

3. Adverts need to be made clear they're adverts

An ad and an unbiased product recommendation are basically at the opposite ends of the reliability spectrum.

"recommend me the best from the similar products which didn't pay you for advertising"