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> Mani Gandham is co-founder and CEO of Instinctive. The entire post is a native ad.

• manigandham 11y ago
  Not really, it's a contributed guest post that I've made as objective and informative as I could. I see now that perhaps those 2 sentences out of the entire article might be out of place but I couldn't resist. I think the rest of the text stands on it's own and I hope it helps provide readers with more insight into the whole ad blocking situation.
  • enraged_camel 11y ago
    >>Not really, it's a contributed guest post that I've made as objective and informative as I could. There's no rule that says native ads can't be informational.
    • manigandham 11y ago
      Out of curiosity - if that paragraph wasn't there then would you still consider it a native ad?
• quadrangle 11y ago
  The concern isn't whether someone is ever advertising an idea or whether they have a conflict of interest. The concern is whether they are paying to have special access to someone's attention. Yes, this can be seen as an ad. But if the author didn't pay to be able to put the article there, then it's different from what ads are generally.