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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by martin_e on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:31PM (#22926156)
I checked, they are both unlisted and embedding is enabled.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by cjbprime on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:32PM (#22926175)
Did you read the second sentence, though? It seems like it applies here.
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by Google234 on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:42PM (#22926305)
Is that actually technically possible? I don’t think so
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by Asuchug4 on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:48PM (#22926376)
Why not? YT view counter is famous for being stuck on some low value like "300" when thousands of people are watching. It just isn't something worth updating in real time.
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by Google234 on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:44PM (#22926953)
That’s a thing from like 2015 that was in place to to make sure that the views were real. I’ve uploaded videos that have gotten 10s if views. Really, how hard do you think it is to make a counter?
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by martin_e on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:46PM (#22926351)
> Did you read the second sentence, though? It seems like it applies here

I guess I didn't! :)

That's interesting because I looked around to see if that was possible and did not find it to be so. I wonder if they have some back door access to YT videos due to, well, being YC?

Interesting.

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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by banachtarski on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:49PM (#22926386)
.. more likely, the youtube view counting algorithm doesn't include embedded views.
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by gnicholas on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:54PM (#22926452)
In general, it does. https://boostlikes.com/blog/2014/08/youtube-video-views-embe...
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