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

moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Google know who they’re streaming videos to. They know this from the back-end. They absolutely do not require a script running in the browser to phone home about it in order to count “views”. All the telemetry they need they can get from existing traffic; the additional telemetry supplied by scripts is mostly just for Bad Reasons and it’s morally fine to block it.

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