Yeah so diverging from the gist of the article. The "sponsors" I recently see are more and more leaning towards shady business practices. SerpApi riding on the back of Google, abusing the infra without paying a single penny. They don't build their own index, crawler, classification, abuse and spam handling, but just leech on others who already spent money doing that and maintain the healthy search engine. I am aware that some American judge ruled that it's all okay, it just doesn't made me feel less disgusted.

Then there is this company that provides "customers" access to so-called "residential proxies," that is your home networks, to which they gained access in sneaky ways, essentially forming a large botnet. Then they allow the "customers" to use that your network to illegally scrap content, download who-knows-what using your IP address and making you responsible for that.

Yeah, those are "sponsors" I could certainly trust and recommend. Sure. Shame on you bloggers and youtubers.