A quick one, but I’d just like to say how much I hate sponsored links. Articles that have hotlinks all over, and you think, hmm, maybe these links go somewhere relevant or something… nope, just to whatever company “sponsored” a random link which is far more invasive than having ads on the borders of the article because now the article text itself, the whole point of delivering anything at all, is now polluted.
I fear for the day when people actually buy things because they saw some obnoxious online ad, but I think I should be in fear of that having happened already, as I suspect is the case.