So sorry for the confusion!
The content you are seeing is part of a new feature we’ve rolled out called Promoted Content https://blog.shareaholic.com/generate-revenue-shareaholic-promoted-content/ which you seem well aware of!
Those that do display Promoted Content get paid accordingly and can track performance/earnings here: https://shareaholic.com/earn/dashboard
You can also tailor the promoted content that does display by using our exclusion tool!:
https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200471466-How-do-I-exclude-pages-from-being-recommended-
To TURN-OFF Promoted Content, here’s a guide how:
https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/202365395-How-do-I-change-my-Promoted-Content-setti…
With regard to registering any changes to your Promoted Content settings, these usually take a short time to register across our system and your site, so we thank you for your patience! We want to make sure you are in control of the content! ??
Please let me know if you have any questions about this by writing in here.
Happy to help!