>That’s because every time someone scrolled past a video in their newsfeed it counted as a view, no matter how fast that scroll was. This was likely used to try

>That’s because every time someone scrolled past a video in their newsfeed it counted as a view, no matter how fast that scroll was. This was likely used to try and entice video creators who equated views with revenue. At least in the ads space, a view was counted as three seconds watching a video. It's pretty bad (and much video is unmeasurable, anyway) but it's not as bad as you're making out.