You're right, but the article posted includes statements like: > Two hundred thousand subscribers did not suddenly quit their subscriptions and start using the

You're right, but the article posted includes statements like: > Two hundred thousand subscribers did not suddenly quit their subscriptions and start using their friends’ passwords. That implies the author thought this was a natural subscription drop and not a result of losing 700k subscribers in Russia. I'm not sure I have any confidence in their predictions about the future, since they're so clueless about what's happening today.