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Something like ~30% of desktop users use ad-block.

If you are tech or tech-adjacent content, it can double or triple that.

40-50% of desktop users on my channel, heh.

I don't hold it against anyone. YouTube's ads are horrible, and overstuffed into videos.

I use premium and know not everyone can afford it, but one concern I have is premium views are also not counted if someone still uses the adblocker while logged into YouTube premium. (So you miss out on the view and on that extra bit of premium revenue).

I would suspect it affects specific channels more than others. Obviously smaller tech channels are probably hit the hardest % wise

One report (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/) indicated that more than half of Americans use an ad blocker.

The view drop only happened for desktop views.

Firefox on Android supports uBlock Origin.

"a lot of users are on mobile devices where they are using the native app that doesn't even support this."

Laughs in NewPipe.

Laughs in patched YT.