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Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

001Guy001@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

For reference, here are the exceptions I’ve been using to try to make sure my viewership counts. Not sure if they’re all needed

@@||youtube.com/api$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||youtube.com/youtubei$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||youtube.com/ptracking$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||play.google.com/log$domain=youtube.com|google.com
! these are meant for checking for active internet connection (https://www.techtapto.com/what-is-gstatic-why-you-see-it-often/#Is_Gstatic_com_generate_204_a_virus)
@@||youtube.com/generate_204$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||google.com/generate_204$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||youtube.com/gen_204$domain=youtube.com|google.com
@@||google.com/gen_204$domain=youtube.com|google.com

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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They’re not getting revenue from you either way. That’s really more effort than I would want to go through for what amounts to a display bug.

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