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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
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[โ€“] yukichigai@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.

[โ€“] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I actually removed a lot of ad blockers from all my devices once I found that uBO could do it all. That could be what they are seeing from others as well, perhaps!