I hate advertising, but im not so ignorant as to think it will never show up here.. It would be nice if the profits were distributed between users. But steemit is a company. They need to make money. As it is the promoted tab is the equivalent of advertising.. You pay SBD to get your post to show up on the promoted page. There are no big companies doing it so I look through it from time to time still.. But once companies advertise there. I will never look again