Amazon Native Shopping Ads = Decrease In Organic Rankings?

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Has anyone seen any hard evidence that large Amazon native ad units, above the fold, decrease rankings at all?

Seems kind of correlative if it's obviously affecting the user experience, but then again I see tons of sites ranking just fine with native ad units right under the title! (even before the intro paragraph in some cases)

Curious if you guys have noticed anything similar?

P.S. - I'm asking because I added a bunch of ad units I don't normally run during November when the 12% thing was going on... Can't tell if leaving them up has anything to do with the after Christmas slump or not. (my gut says no, but unfortunately wasn't monitoring it, so figured I'd ask around)
 
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