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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by detaro on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:50PM (#22926397)
Because Youtube uses some measure of actually played video time to count a view. Depending on how it is implemented, downloads likly do not trigger that (since data loaded doesn't mean it was watched)
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Re:Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos? by nefitty on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:33PM (#22926841)
Hm, seems like that would leave a mechanism open for blocking those kinds of sites. One reason I can think not to is if other apps, like YT for Roku, have to access the data directly and then process the relevant view count/ad stuff client side
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