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YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

uBlock Origin has 36,000,000 users according to Google and ABP has 46,000,000 users. Another 13,000,000 use AdGuard and 67,000,000 use AdBlock (the crappy one, but nonetheless, it blocks YouTube ads).

Also on Firefox there are 7,780,587 uBO users. Checkmate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
Chrome Web Store Firefox Add-ons Microsoft Edge Add-ons Opera add-ons Total
uBlock Origin 36,000,000 7,780,587 10,000,000 12,686,907 66,467,494
uBlock Origin Lite 70,000 3,145 3,000 N/A 73,145
uBlock 700,000 N/A ‪10,000 N/A 710,000
AdNauseam N/A 74,478 10,000 210,616 295,094
AdBlock Plus 46,000,000 4,064,146 10,000,000 50,844,211 110,908,357
AdBlock 67,000,000 1,206,627 N/A N/A 68,206,627
AdGuard 13,000,000 1,053,029 8,000,000 10,872,145 32,925,174
Total 162,770,000 14,182,012 28,023,000 74,613,879 279,588,891

Source: Official data from extension stores

This table does not include Safari extensions, browser extensions installed through Linux package managers like the firefox-ublock-origin package on Arch Linux, browsers with built in adblockers like LibreWolf or Brave, modded YouTube mobile apps like Vanced/Revanced on Android, uYou for iOS, alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, desktop clients like FreeTube, other mobile apps like Newpipe, Libretube or Yattee or other adblocking solutions.

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