How are pageviews counted?

There was an update in one of the recent upgrades that reduced the false counting of page views i think, or at least that’s what i took from the comments, and is definitely reflected in the discourse stats.

Has anyone else had an increase in page views since moving to GA4 from Universal Analytics? My traffic has increased quite a lot, assume it is due to the number of people with Cookies blocked which would have effected the UA count quite a lot?