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I'm not ignoring you at all, Jaden. I originally had a lot more written, but deleted much of it for the sake of brevity.
Yes, switching to the shortlist solved the complaint about advertising on the homescreen on 1.9.17, and I, too, liked having it there. Many people, however, still complained about it. We remember all the threads about advertising on the homescreen and the advice to switch the list to your shortlist. Many didn't like that advice and complained about it anyway because they felt it was too much work on their part to have to take that extra step to avoid Kobo's "advertising".
A lot of Kobo's customers sync their devices wirelessly or through the Kobo desktop software. I don't have numbers, of course, but I'd hazard a guess that most of their customers use kepubs and don't sideload their content. I have one sister who's an avid reader and that's what she does. (Well, I have two sisters who are avid readers, but one uses Kobo and the other Sony.) She likes the convenience of syncing directly with Kobo and can't be bothered with downloading the adobe epubs and messing around with Calibre. For all those customers, the device automatically reset the carousel to "recommended reads" *every single time* they synced it and they'd have to reset it to show their shortlist. That's advertising. A link? Seriously? No advertising is loaded onto the device because of a link. It's only loaded onto the device if one chooses to click that link.
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