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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
- feverzsj 2mo agoYes. More enshittification.
- itopaloglu83 2mo agoExactly. More reason to pay creators less.
- upupupandaway 2mo agoHow will this pay "creators" less? Isn't it going to generate more views?
- bestham 2mo agoIt incentivises clickbait. The creators that we are talking about provide value in long form videos. If all you need to get paid is a five second view (lower bars to payment) the market will adapt and “automated solutions” will take a chunk of what now goes towards creators.
- itopaloglu83 2mo agoExactly. We already have a lot of videos with the phrase “what until the end, you wouldn’t believe what happened” and similarly we’re now going to have a lot of mumbling in the first part of videos.
- ChrisRR 2mo agoWhy do you consider this enshittification, just out of interest?
- chancitag 2mo agoI suspect because clicking on a video that has a bait thumbnail, realizing it's garbage, and clicking away will now count as a view for it.
- oenton 2mo agoOh joy. Does this include the YouTube shorts that auto play when I open the mobile app? I know, my fault for having it installed.
- LocalH 2mo agoThey've already been doing this for Shorts since last year. Now it will also apply to all other forms of content on YouTube.