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I don't disagree and think that that is something people should be more concerned about than they already are/have been. I think the difference is how opaque the influence of the middleman is.

It's like the difference of someone handing out printed tour guides vs an in-person tour guide. It's typically can be easier to tell which are the ads, the extent of the curation, etc. with the printed guide(but not always!). While with the in-person guide you just have to just have to take everything they say at face value since there's no other surrounding information to judge.