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When a video says "so check out NordVPN" before returning to gardening content, I don't have any concerns that the gardening content is influenced by the advertising - they're unrelated. This article is about software development and contains an ad which is irrelevant to everything but software development. That's completely different.

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That's basically the same way magazine ads work. If the magazine focused on a particular category most of the ads would be focused on that category too.

For example "Chess Life" mostly contains ads that are irrelevant to everything other than chess. "QST", a ham radio magazine, mostly contains ads that are irrelevant outside of ham radio.

This is what I most often see people here suggesting as the right model for internet advertising.

Thanks tzs.

OP here. I actually feel that having ads that are relevant to the people reading are better both ways, as you might actually learn about a good tool :) (I try at least to only work with products I believe in).

I felt that having the ad between line dividers, and having this: "Thanks Linear for supporting today’s article!"

should be enough, but maybe I'm mistaken.

It might be a little better to put the thanks at the top of the ad instead of the bottom.

Yeah, good point. Might be feeling a bit too sleazy now. Edited :)

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