Before you ask whether that sounds reasonable, I'd need to be convinced this is an ad. To me it is an article, one that apparently someone had to thumb through a couple hundred patent applications to write, among other research.

I used ads as an example.

The article can be described as an article embedded with Amazon afflicted links.

Put that in the disclaimer.

The article is not pro amazon. It reveals new information. The writer has done research, tracked goods to their origin warehouses, even bought some products and reached out to multiple amazon executives for comment.

Clumping it together with the typical amazon affiliate click bait that offer the minimum bare basic content and exist solely for affiliate link income is misleading and uncharitable.

Google, Facebook, Snapchat all exist on ad income so in many ways writers, journalists and software engineers are on the same boat.