“AdGuard, told the outlet they normally see about 6,000 uninstallations per day on Chrome, but that shot up to 11,000 per day between October 9 and the end of the month, peaking at 52,000 on October 18.”
YouTube’s crackdown did get people to uninstall ad blockers. Then they installed better ones. AdGuard’s paid version gets past the wall and hit 60,000 installs on peak days. Ghostery saw a 30% jump on Edge. YouTube didn’t recover ad views. It trained millions of users to shop for a smarter blocker.