That’s more or less how it works, but that’s still an additional call. If Google is not tying it directly into segment download requests, then it could potentially be blocked without disrupting playback.
I have no insight into the inner workings. If I download a video with yt-dlp, does it increase the view count? If not, then it’s a broken system, yeah?
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m very curious to know how they register a view, yeah. The only true measurement is the video reaching someone’s retina or ears, to measure attention, which is impossible at a large scale as of yet. 🥲