NONE@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoIf a YouTube video is watched using a frontend such as Newpipe or Indivious, does it count as a view for the video? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11
arrow-up129arrow-down1message-squareIf a YouTube video is watched using a frontend such as Newpipe or Indivious, does it count as a view for the video? Why or why not?NONE@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareshrugal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoSearch engines are easy to detect and filter out though, they have very distinct UA strings.
minus-squaredanAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoThat was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.
Search engines are easy to detect and filter out though, they have very distinct UA strings.
That was just an example. There’s all sorts of automated traffic that shouldn’t count as a view. A human loading the page but not actually playing the video (like if they disable auto playing of videos) shouldn’t count as a view either.