Yeah, by the author's standard, any nice picture would be an ad for the photographer. Pretty picture of a New Zeeland countryside? Ad for NZ tourism office. P

Yeah, by the author's standard, any nice picture would be an ad for the photographer. Pretty picture of a New Zeeland countryside? Ad for NZ tourism office. Pretty picture of a data center chockfull of network equipment and mainframes? Ad for IBM and Cisco. Microsoft have been doing that since Bing, show a pretty interesting picture with a little icon to know where that picture is from. It just happens that one is from a game. People are so tired of obnoxious and disgusting ads that they tend to forget why they hate obnoxious and disgusting ads; because they are obnoxious and disgusting. Then they go on an irrational crusade about every picture, awesome viral video, mystery public campaign just because it originates from a corporation.