Here is my take - They are adding a new metric called “Engaged Views”, this is the same metric that a “View” was previously, something like - the person stayed after 30 seconds so they are “engaged”. Then they are going to sell ads based on the now inflated view number and use the “Engaged view” metric against creators so they can cut the amount they are paying for monetization.
Ding ding! Nailed it.
Inflate apparent views across the board while simultaneously making it harder for creators to get paid.
I think what matters for creators is verified watch hours
Now we have view inflation on top of losing the dislike button and the UI consistently getting worse.
So after butchering the like/dislike ratio, the view-count will also become utterly useless… What’s next, automatically subscribing users to inflate subscriber-count too? All these universally liked videos (no dislikes), views/exposure (zero engagement), advertiser-friendly content (threatened (shadow)banning or demonetization)! Now the only red flag to any malinformed advertiser might be a low subscriber-count; so just do it already. Well, alongside the lackluster performance of the ads themselves of course (which can only be measured after the transaction: poorly at that). And the best part: non of the ad-revenue will be shared with the propped up channels: as the recently heightened threshold, requires additional engaged viewers; as opposed to the TikTok-level, worthless kind.
Calling it now…
“YouTube will now count views only when an ad has been played in full”.
Will come sooner than you think.
That’s it, I’m in my grandpa era, books (published pre-2022) and retro games only
If I could browse the internet at large with the same filter (that is to say only content pre-2022) I might consider still using it but as of right now it ain’t worth it. Might just build a zeronet with my friends at this point.
I know everybody’s pissed at YouTube for this news and the inordinate amount of Artificial Incompetence they host and serve, but FYI add “before:2022” (or whatever year) to filter out recent years. There may be ways to do this with other sites, please let me know if you know.
Did you just have a stroke?
💦 I finished when I read zeronet. 💦
What’s tripping you up friend?
Cooking books on a cooking earth.
I tried watching a how-to video on YT today.
It say “playback not supported on this device”.
Probably thanks to my ad-blocking efforts.
Fuck youtube. Can’t get views if the video never plays.
Oh like the chinese bot farms aren’t going to take advantage of this to push slop content to the top. Wonder what they are charging for 1 sec views…
So every time your mouse activates the thumbnail preview: that’s a view.
Don’t bother trying to turn that feature off. They just turn it back on. Flipping those fake settings buttons is just more engagement “money” for them to harvest.
On PC you need to turn off view history and use Ublock Origin to block EVERYTHING on YT but the player and some basic UI buttons and maybe comments.
according to my playlist history, they were already doing that.
It makes it easier for advertisers because all views on the internet are equally inflated I guess but it also destroys 2 decades of internet history in that views played a huge role in Youtube culture and they will soon become meaningless with this update. Getting a million or a billion views on anything won‘t matter at all anymore.
But yeah Facebook, Xitter and TikTok have been doing it for years so it makes sense when you compete with them.
Minus the accounts that have autoplay enabled. (It should be)
I wonder if the algorithm counts views the same though.
time to learn Japanese or Chinese and use nikoniko or bilibili
