Yes, they uninstall and then install an adblocker that works. Click bait.

Misleading. Ad blocker installations also rose. This isn't people leaving adblocking, this is people changing to better ones.

uBlock Origin has kept their filters up-to-date for me. Still no ads, and no blocks from YouTube, since day 1. I did disable my other privacy extensions like Privacy Badger and Ghostery on YouTube to stay on their "good" side however.

Yeah, probably lots of people uninstalling ghostery and adguard so they can install ublock origin.

The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.

I uninstalled chrome. Stopped logging into YouTube. And moved to freetube on desktop. Newpipe on Android.

It will be another dark day on the internet if Youtube finally blocks out the last adblockers.

As a small channel owner, there's no other viable place to share my hobby content. Up until six months ago, I could count on Reddit for 150-200 views, now it is 15-20. If Youtube finally goes full enshitted, there go the rest of my viewers and I may as well just give up making stuff.

This result honestly sounds like their best-case outcome. I don't like much of what Google does, but I'm certain a lot of discussion went into what would be viewed as a "win" on this call, and my guess is "some number of people stop using ad-blocking software" actually beats out "some people are converted to subscribers" (an effect not measured here and somewhat necessary to get any context for one data point) by virtue of Google being an advertising company.

Regardless, they're targeting only low-hanging fruit: people who use ad blockers to block ads. Sounds tautological, but this excludes anyone concerned about privacy. Nobody using an ad blocker in concert with other add-ons is going to be converted here. And I sort of wonder whether media coverage from when the crackdown started inflated ad-block installs among people who'd never used one, thus making this win less substantial on a longer timeline.

Do other non ublock adblockers not have the ability to whitelist specific domains? Or are people just unaware of it? (Probably the latter id assume)