In a perpetual war between YouTube and Adblock… a particular change in August appears to have caused unintended collateral damage.

By logging a certain URL on a widely utilized list, the tracking of authentic desktop views for those using adblocking third party software appears to have been broken, leading to drastically reduced viewership for a large number of channels.

Despite certain claims that this is a common and seasonal change, the reality is that this was an unexpected consequence of YouTubes hyper aggression with advertising, and the pushback that they get from extensions looking to block their ads form showing.