Now we have view inflation on top of losing the dislike button and the UI consistently getting worse.
Calling it now…
“YouTube will now count views only when an ad has been played in full”.
Will come sooner than you think.
I wonder if the algorithm counts views the same though.
It makes it easier for advertisers because all views on the internet are equally inflated I guess but it also destroys 2 decades of internet history in that views played a huge role in Youtube culture and they will soon become meaningless with this update. Getting a million or a billion views on anything won‘t matter at all anymore.
But yeah Facebook, Xitter and TikTok have been doing it for years so it makes sense when you compete with them.
Oh like the chinese bot farms aren’t going to take advantage of this to push slop content to the top. Wonder what they are charging for 1 sec views…
time to learn Japanese or Chinese and use nikoniko or bilibili
