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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
by boolemancer 5y ago
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)?
- judge2020 5y agoYoutube 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/#:~:text=The%20user%20watches%20it%20on%20the%20platform%20for%C2%A0at%20least%2030%20seconds https://www.tubics.com/blog/what-counts-as-a-view-on-youtube.... 1: https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png https://i.judge.sh/rare/Cherry/chrome_H0p9bAoLgy.png the red line is how far in i've watched.
- corobo 5y agoIf the actual video URL is somehow grabbable from the API you might miss whatever triggers a +1 view from the website in theory