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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I know everybody's pissed at YouTube for this news and the inordinate amount of Artificial Incompetence they host and serve, but FYI add "before:2022" (or whatever year) to filter out recent years. There may be ways to do this with other sites, please let me know if you know.