Ya know Bit, ol pal, you just reminded me of a round table discussion I was listenin to this morning on NPR. It was about all the new devious ways that companies have of "hiding" and "masking" their advertising on the web. So much so that news stories and factual info are mostly all...in DAW parlance..."AutoTuned" way more than most folks know or could understand. And they did mention "false testimonials" and such. Where companies pay for folks to wax up a high sheen for their stuff and make it sound like it's just Joe Blow next door who thinks it's the greatest thing since the love-it cordless massager. And for a minute I started thinking to myself...self, even though you are actually using and loving these various software titles you advocate are you just being an unwitting shill for those companies?? But my self answered back...no, not yet I aint. No one's askin or forcing me to open my pie hole on a regular basis and prattle on as I so often do about this geegaw or that...let alone PAYIN me somethin for it!! Why I actually think I'm "HELPIN" people...dim bulb that I am...but then self answered back, but what if you're just a dupe and don't even know it? So I thought about that for a while and then I answered him in the only way I could. "Flake off, touch hole" I explained.
Course, I said that with love.