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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

And turned YouTube into even more incentive to generate clickbait.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months 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

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