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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing (techcrunch.com)
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[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now we have view inflation on top of losing the dislike button and the UI consistently getting worse.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Fyi the return youtube dislike works wonders. They store the dislikes instead of youtube and adjust them to match the view count.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Don't forgrt it just autoplays shit too.