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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing (techcrunch.com)
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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

So every time your mouse activates the thumbnail preview: that's a view.

Don't bother trying to turn that feature off. They just turn it back on. Flipping those fake settings buttons is just more engagement "money" for them to harvest.

On PC you need to turn off view history and use Ublock Origin to block EVERYTHING on YT but the player and some basic UI buttons and maybe comments.