Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more

Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more generic "promotion" activity. A well done piece of intelligent material, in any form, that happens to allow voluntary discovery of something related to the matter at hand is fine. Anything that disturbs or disrupts the flow and tone of the aforementioned material is not. On the other hand, I do appreciate the snark here: So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model. You're not too far off. The rule of thumb I apply to this world is that 90% of everything is crap.[ß] And that rule is recursive. Acceptably decent things are rare exceptions and outliers. ß: Including me.