To be honest, it's almost certainly reworded or poorly translated from whatever he originally said.

It definitely wouldn't be impossible to counter, but it would be difficult. I don't really doubt that effective ad-blocking to server-side injections would appear sooner or later.

I'll never understand how people are like "okay I agree to a bit of brainwashing in exchange for watching this :)"

I do my best to actively work at not buying anything I see advertised. Often there's little choice, but I like to think successfully showing me ads is a net negative to the company.

This isn't down to you - A good percentage of modern day labour positions are absolutely soul-crushing, other employees tend to only survive it via years of practice deadening their own souls. I once got promoted and then quit my job one month later because dealing with management types absolutely ruined me, it took three weeks before I realised I was drinking every day just to survive. Thankfully I was in a vaguely financially able position to leave that job.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you do what's best to take care of yourself

I didn't realise Linus still wielded this kind of power. That's kinda rad, I like it.

I got you comrade

Basically just admitting they're