I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:

“If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank”

What is your opinion on this? Do you agree with them?

  • Greg Clarke
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    1 year ago

    The “If you use adblock, you don’t care about creator’s point blank” is such a stupid argument and complete misunderstanding of the economics. There are other far more efficient ways to support creators than watching ads. Watching an hour of ads will generate a few cents for the creators and orders of magnitude more for the monopolistic platforms that host the content. The ads model doesn’t fairly reward creators. I guarantee I give more to creators (via various means) than the misdirected “creator saviour” that wrote that ridiculous quote.

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        1 year ago

        Linus is condescending and rude to his staff on camera, I would only guess he’s worse off camera. He also makes a lot of confidently ignorant statements about tech he doesn’t understand. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a bright fellow, he just thinks he’s smarter than he actually is which ends up making him look stupid.