Hello there Josh,
Wanted to provide a little information regarding the Affiliate Links program we offer, and your review! Our VP of Products recently published a great blog post directly addressing concerns like yours, and I wanted to link to it here as it is full of great information:
https://blog.shareaholic.com/additional-details-about-our-recent-monetization-product-offerings/
Secondly, the content you are seeing is part of a new feature we’ve rolled out called Promoted Content https://blog.shareaholic.com/generate-revenue-shareaholic-promoted-content/ which you seem well aware of!
Those that do display Promoted Content get paid accordingly and can track performance/earnings here: https://shareaholic.com/earn/dashboard
You can also tailor the promoted content that does display by using our exclusion tool!:
https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200471466-How-do-I-exclude-pages-from-being-recommended-
To TURN-OFF Promoted Content, here’s a guide how:
https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/202365395-How-do-I-change-my-Promoted-Content-setti…
Hope this is at very least some good clarification, and please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly as well via [email protected]!
Thank you again!
