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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And turned YouTube into even more incentive to generate clickbait.

[โ€“] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

Revenue is already largely based on watch time, so if people click away after a couple seconds, you didn't really get anything anyway. Plus you tell the algorithm that your videos will cause a room of people to leave quickly