Go complain to Youtube, where the views should be measured on the backend instead of via an API call.

Does anyone realize how many missed views this implies??

SoftTalker 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

They certainly are counting views on the backend also, and I'm sure they know exactly what the cause of the discrepancy (or "drop" as they term it) is.

	▲	giancarlostoro 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		They probably use a combination of the API and raw server requests due to how easy it would be otherwise to spoof viewership for ad revenue fraud. Would not surprise me anyway.

▲

slightwinder 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also see the opposite problem: can one abuse that API to artificial inflate the view count?

▲

thrance 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does kinda make sense for once, you probably wouldn't want to just count API calls for views. I heard you need to watch a significant portion of the video before it counts as a view.

▲

archerx 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I realized this when I watched one of my friends music videos to give the extra view (they had less than 100) but the views number didn’t go up because of my ad blocker.

▲

SchizoDuckie 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

afairc sub-100 views are not counted in realtime anyway.

▲

archerx 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

When I watched it without the ad blocker the views went up by one. I feel like it's a lot more realtime now because I swear I see the view counter updating as I'm watching some videos.

▲

reddalo 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it was 300.

	▲	ConfuSomu 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Then it used to stop at 301 views, while the system was verifying the veracity of the views, or at least, that's what I've been told…

▲

esafak 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because Google still can't count that low, amirite?!

▲

Workaccount2 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ad-block views don't help anyone anyway, so I'm not sure why this would matter. If anything it's more accurate.