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[–] 8 points 1 year ago

It depends. Newpipe definitely does, because it's a local client and uses your internet to watch the video. Invidious however can be configured to cache videos, which is useful on bigger instances where people watch the "top" videos. If a video is cached it will simply use the local video stream and not count a view.

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