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    Maybe it's a short-term vs. long-term thing. In the short-term it might generate some additional income at the cost of income in the long run. Commented Dec 9, 2025 at 5:20
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    I bet in half a year's time the ads will blend in even better - the "ad" annotation will be gone, the "logo" will blend in, the "sponsored" text grey-on-grey and hard to notice and the entire thing will look like a normal - if generic - question... until you click it, then you'll get half a dozen pop ups. And of course it will be implemented, because, this is not even a "request for feedback" (which staff would ignore anyway) but a "here's the crap we'll shove down your throat" statement. It took a full blown moderation strike to stop the inane "we love LLMs" policy, this one nobody can stop. Commented Dec 11, 2025 at 16:07
  • @CharonX That might be why they wanted to put user avatars in the questions list ─ so that the logos in native ads would not make them visibly different. Commented Dec 15, 2025 at 11:41
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    @CharonX as long as it has a distinctive CSS, there will always be tools to change how it looks. Commented Dec 16, 2025 at 9:25
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    @JohnDvorak Naturally - but that adds another hoop users need to jump through. Unless it gets packaged into one of the default "adblock" packages (instead of being a specialised script/whatever) people would need to be tech-savvy and willing enough to do it - and the "normal" user might simply be pushed away from SE instead. Commented Dec 16, 2025 at 10:58
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    @NoDataDumpNoContribution if you believe this company's management even understands the concept of "long-term", I've got a bridge to sell you. Commented Dec 17, 2025 at 13:10
  • @IanKemp-SEkilledbyLLMs maybe they understand, but just don't give a s**t. Perhaps it's just a matter of their goals being different from those of the community. Commented Dec 24, 2025 at 18:32