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why not ? :)

• the-dude 7y ago
  I guess the video count is updated by the player and youtube-dl does not use this player. Also, YT view counts may not be as straightforward as you imagine, as they are a hot metric for advertisers.
• detaro 7y ago
  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)
  • nefitty 7y ago
    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