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minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI don’t think YouTube cares if you refuses to watch their videos on another platform or not. They probably prefer if you didn’t. You only cost them money with no revenue whatsoever.
minus-squareboywar3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThey are still a metric they can peddle to their advertisers to show “how many people see this ad in a month.”
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoYou don’t think they know how many watch their videos with adblockers or third party clients? I highly doubt they accept views from third party clients as valid ad views or probably views at all since that would likely make abuse easier.
minus-squareboywar3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIt still goes to active user counts though. There will still be a footprint left by any view and that can be marketed as “we have X million users daily!”
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI doubt the really big advertisers (the only ones that maybe can negotiate) think that’s enough statistics.
I don’t think YouTube cares if you refuses to watch their videos on another platform or not.
They probably prefer if you didn’t. You only cost them money with no revenue whatsoever.
They are still a metric they can peddle to their advertisers to show “how many people see this ad in a month.”
You don’t think they know how many watch their videos with adblockers or third party clients?
I highly doubt they accept views from third party clients as valid ad views or probably views at all since that would likely make abuse easier.
It still goes to active user counts though. There will still be a footprint left by any view and that can be marketed as “we have X million users daily!”
I doubt the really big advertisers (the only ones that maybe can negotiate) think that’s enough statistics.