Linus point has a slightly different nuance: adblocking is theft. Similarly to how Taylor Swift was against Spotify because (IIRC) people should buy albums.
My version was that adblocking damages revenue in very quantifiable ways* and you can work around that.
* I am almost sure that YouTube's recommendation algorithm does not counts watched ads as a metric, that is maybe watching ads increases the total watch-time of the video but otherwise an ad-full view is counted the same as a ad-free view. But this belief is not based on anything.
If this happened to be wrong then an adblocker could exponentially hurt a channel growth and that might equal quite a few water bottles.
My version was that adblocking damages revenue in very quantifiable ways* and you can work around that.
* I am almost sure that YouTube's recommendation algorithm does not counts watched ads as a metric, that is maybe watching ads increases the total watch-time of the video but otherwise an ad-full view is counted the same as a ad-free view. But this belief is not based on anything.
If this happened to be wrong then an adblocker could exponentially hurt a channel growth and that might equal quite a few water bottles.