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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by boolemancer on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:32PM (#28322387)
How would Google's backend know whether the traffic comes from their own frontend vs a utility like youtube-dl (assume for the sake of argument that the utility is trying to make the traffic look like normal YouTube traffic)?
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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by judge2020 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:32PM (#28324029)
Youtube proper does a lot of JS, eg. a view is usually only counted after ~30 seconds[0] and does other things like logging the current timecode so that it can return to that time in case the user clicks off the video and returns to it later[1].

0: https://www.tubics.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-view-on-youtube....

1: https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png the red line is how far in i've watched.

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Re:Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and f... by corobo on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:40AM (#28326521)
If the actual video URL is somehow grabbable from the API you might miss whatever triggers a +1 view from the website in theory
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