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I wonder if some of Youtube's behavior was responsible for inflating the number of views. For example, after searching on my phone, some of the videos in the s
by gwbas1c 1y ago
I wonder if some of Youtube's behavior was responsible for inflating the number of views.
For example, after searching on my phone, some of the videos in the search results would play silently without me selecting the video. Then, the video would show up in my history.
I also wonder if they aren't counting short (under 10 seconds) views of longer videos?
- nkrisc 1y agoThis happened all the time. Scrolling through videos would cause them to start playing inline in the feed view if your finger lingered a millisecond too long. So I have all these videos I’ve accidentally “watched” while trying to scroll past them.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- techjamie 1y agoThis can be disabled. Go to your profile in the app, then to settings in the upper right. Under General there's a setting called Playback in Feeds.
- gwbas1c 1y agoYes, I turned that off immediately.