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There is no balancing happening here. YouTube needs to make an API call to attribute a view to a video, and easylist started blocking that API call. YouTube was
by granzymes 1y ago
There is no balancing happening here. YouTube needs to make an API call to attribute a view to a video, and easylist started blocking that API call. YouTube was perfectly happy a month ago to count views for users that were blocking ads, and presumably remains happy to do so.
The only thing that changed is easylist blocked the API.
- justinclift 1y ago> The only thing that changed is easylist blocked the API. Wonder if there's a good reason they started blocking that API?
- hananova 1y agoThe do not need an API call, obviously they know that the video is being watched, because it's being streamed.
- granzymes 1y agoYouTube serves videos from CDNs, many of which it does not own.
- moffkalast 1y agoI missed the part where that's our problem.
- zeroimpl 1y agoMetrics from the CDN will be wildly inaccurate. Also downloading a video isn’t the same as watching it.