I should have made more explicit that it’s my opinion: “a bad thing from my point of view”.
It’s a quirk of mine—I dislike marketing schemes injected into non-marketing contexts, especially if that is not very explicit. It is a mild dislike, not like I’m going to quit a site because of it or even write a rant against Amazon links rewriting.
Yes, I understand that Internet runs on such things. No, it does not make me like it more.
That would be a bad thing.
Why?
I should have made more explicit that it’s my opinion: “a bad thing from my point of view”.
It’s a quirk of mine—I dislike marketing schemes injected into non-marketing contexts, especially if that is not very explicit. It is a mild dislike, not like I’m going to quit a site because of it or even write a rant against Amazon links rewriting.
Yes, I understand that Internet runs on such things. No, it does not make me like it more.
It isn’t a marketing scheme. It’s a monetization scheme.
(Marketing is presenting products for sale. Monetization is finding ways to extract revenue from previously non-revenue-generating activity.)
(And no, the Internet doesn’t run on marketing or monetization. A few of your favorite Internet services probably do, though; but probably not all.)
I accept the correction.
I have another quirk: I dislike being monetized.