i think it's mostly for maintaining the servers, the actual article writers are random people on the internet, who probably recieve no money
different point -> different comment? also ads technically are anything that promotes a product? i'm not using the definition of "visible malware added to a website"
consider this. an iframe containing a page with meta refresh, and on each load, the server adds a different hyperlinked image. and some cookies.
i think it's mostly for maintaining the servers, the actual article writers are random people on the internet, who probably recieve no money