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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by yladiz on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:11AM (#12562871)
Do you have a citation for the "4 seconds" figure? If it is 4 seconds, and it logs a view after 3 seconds, that's pretty damning.
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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by sean_patel on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:54PM (#12568254)
It's not publicly discussed for obvious reasons, but I worked closely with Mudd for a couple of months last year. Here's a related interview where he touches upon it.

http://digiday.com/platforms/advertisingweek2015-facebook-fi...

Facebook spend an awful lot of resources tracking all sorts of user behaviour inside it's "walled garden".

I got really sick of it after a while and decided to stop working for them (even as a contractor)

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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by AstralStorm on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:03AM (#12563248)
That it logs invisible videos at all would be a problem.
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