We should thank Microsoft for rendering Windows absolutely unusable, to the point that many people are just jumping ship and installing a Linux distro.

The convenience of streaming services disappeared, this is just a natural consequence.

It seems like it worked, the same guy published an update asking people to stop filing the same complaint again and again. The agency is looking into it.

It could be simply luck because it is a slow rollout, or it could also be that you got the filter updates on the background. In any case, you know what to do if you ever run into it.

Use Firefox, update the uBlockOrigin extension, update the filters, remove any other adblocking extension in case you have it. Should work just fine then.