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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days ago

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days ago

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing | TechCrunch

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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When I was a kid I would refresh my video to increase the view count. I thought this was implemented to prevent that.

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