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    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

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      I use uBlock origin on firefox. All my devices are always connected through a VPN with all the ad and tracker blocks turned on.

      I am a YouTube premium subscriber.

      There are dozens of us… dozens!!!

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      Imagine being me and paying for premium and using ublock + revanced.

      At the end of the day, I think I get 10 dollars in value a month, and I know hosting data isn’t free.

      Edit: Right after I submitted I read the comment before me. Sorry about saying the exact same thing again 😅

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        I wouldn’t ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it’s just $5/month.

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            It’s definitely worth it. And it’s better to help independent creators instead of giving money to Google or other shady big tech companies.

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          Not enough content on Nebula. I subscribed because of a couple YouRubers I follow, but there’s just not much there (at least that I watch).

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            These are some Nebula creators I like

            • TLDR News (and their other channels)
            • NileRed
            • PolyMatter
            • ColdFusion
            • TechAltar
            • Ali Abdaal
            • Thomas Frank
            • Wendover Productions
            • RealLifeLore
            • Climate Town
            • Half as Interesting
            • Real Engineering
            • BobbyBroccoli
            • EposVox
            • Not Just Bikes

            I still occasionally use YouTube, but much less than before. I also enjoy Odysee and PeerTube. Grayjay is an amazing Android app to manage all these streaming platforms in one central place.

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              Thanks for the list! I actually got nebula because of RealLifeLore and Wendover. I’ve since subscribed to TLDR News and Real Engineering so I’ll have to give the other creators on your list a view.

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          I’m interested. It’s a real shame they just paywall the entire app and don’t give you a chance to explore what’s there a little.

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        Thank you for being this way.

        I think platform greed is awful, but I think consumer greed is something that largely goes unacknowledged.

        Even though I’ve been ‘over’ the genre for more than a decade, I still buy Japanese shmups when they appear on Steam - at one time they could only be found on obscure JP Warez sites, forget legally here. I do it out of a sense of something owed for past joy, and never play the Steam ver.

        I’m also hypocritical to a degree. I can only afford to support so much and I don’t pay for everything, just what I would have paid for anyways. Perhaps there is some self-satisfying logic built in there lol

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      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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        If we also count other (less popular) adblockers, the Microsoft Edge addon store, browsers that come with pre-installed adblockers like Librewolf and Brave, people who use the package manager on their Linux distro to install browser extensions, alternative YouTube clients like Vanced/Revanced, Newpipe and Libretube as well as alternative frontends like Invidious and FreeTube, I’m pretty sure we still come out at over 100 million.