Yes, I sure don’t like it, and tact aside, it’s the truth. We do enough “sugar coating” things, I find bluntness refreshing sometimes.
In other words–look, I get that advertisers pay the bills, but I’m tired of their interests always being catered to almost exclusively, almost to the point of cow-towing, and then we readers, who are the ultimate targets I would imagine (else we’d be seeing ads for tampons and football jerseys), are told “pay or zip it.” It’s an awful format and the most excellent format for reading should be the priority. It’s fine that we have to acknowledge who pays the bills to a reasonable extent, but when it’s taken this far, it smacks of things like advertisers plastering their logos all over every place they can find such as basketball floors or the backs of people’s heads or the like.
Besides, you still end up with this even when you do pay for it, like the locked-in previews on DVDs & even Netflix has advertising, and these are things you PAY for.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.