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Using a product and hosting commercials for them are two different things though. If Eero stops being a sponsor Im positive there will be another company to fill that slot, its a popular podcast with a large audience reach.

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Yeah sure I just meant they aren't just saying it's awesome and not actually use it. I don't know about ATP but a lot of the apps that sponsor Mac Power Users are apps the hosts used before sponsorship was even considered, so I trust them a bit more.

Marco has said plenty of times that you can pay him to do an ad read but not for a personal endorsement if he doesn’t use the product.

Marco Arment is not exactly a starving indie developer and podcaster between the equity he had in Tumblr. Whatever he got from selling Instapaper, running his own successful ad network for Overcast.

On top of that, he was an early investor in Gimlet Media that just got acquired.

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