[rakamotog]

I read the article and after a few para's I know that the author now works for a SaaS expense management company and I am reading marketing material.

[motohagiography]

While some marketing is more crass than others, there is no doubt that advising people of dark patterns is valuable, and probably worth money to mitigate. Every security advisory in the last decade has been marketing material for a security company or researcher. Everything should be read critically, and this article reminded me to drop a subscription.

You can have an opinion without being dishonest about your interest behind it or its controversy, no?