&gt; Would you rather see an advertisement or an entire article on a blog centered around a product?<p>A site that mixes ads in content won&#x27;t be popular for long (it&#x27;s bad content). It&#x27;s also often illegal without disclosure in many places. And once you are producing this kind of ad-injected content you already have a personal connection with an advertiser and make non-targeted advertisements!(everyone sees your same blogpost about the same shoes).<p>If a website can afford to do <i>that</i> they didn&#x27;t need ad networks to begin with! They could have &quot;magazine ads&quot;, I.e dumb images served from the source domain. Thats exactky what I&#x27;m hoping for - Internet ads being just like magazine ads.