YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

2 days ago by Nemeski to c/google

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.
panda_abyss 10 points 2 days ago

Juicing the books.

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Bismyth 3 points 2 days ago

Makes sense. Most people just read the AI summary now anyway, enough for the first ad to finish rolling

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glimse 1 point 2 days ago

Most?

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Raiderkev 2 points a day ago

Right? I've never done that once.

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