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Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened (www.techradar.com)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, that makes more sense. I thought you were saying uBlock Origin was directly related here, but the culprit seems to be the VPN provider.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Well, I didn't exclude uBlock Origin because I'm not sure if it's not the combination VPN + uBlock Origin.

I did try disabling one of those (the VPN) and then it works, so I know for sure that uBlock Origin by itself does not result in a forced Log In at YouTube but I still don't know for sure if just the VPN without uBlock Origin causes this result.

I could test it, but I haven't done it yet (and, frankly, can't be arsed to do it) hence I left the mention to "ad block" in my original post.