Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
kalleboo@lemmy.world 6 days agoEven before this drop in views, the rule was you have to watch a video for at least 30 seconds before it counts as a view, as a way to combat clickbait where people instantly bounce from a video. Maybe they have changed this further?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It could even be something “innocent” about how ad-blockers have started to interact with the site as YouTube ramps up their anti-adblock measures and the ad-blockers have to change how they work. Like maybe the ad-blockers have started blocking the JavaScript callback that logs the views.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 days ago
thats probably it, the influencers always remind people adblocking or not subscribing hurts thier channel.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I wonder if adblock+ YouTube premium counts as a view. The issue is there’s no way to tell as Google make YouTube algorithms a black box.
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 days ago
barf