You don't have to care about it. But this is not about privacy, as this API likely does not impact your privacy. YouTube can track what you watch anyway.

And if you watch videos, there is a chance you also enjoy them, so it would be in your own interest to support creators in making more of them. But that's a bit more complicated.

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gkbrk 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> YouTube can track what you watch anyway.

If YouTube could track what you watch anyway, they would have no trouble incrementing their view counter. But apparently that's an unsolved problem of computer science, so they were using something ad blockers and privacy extensions could block.

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anon1395 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If i am correct, YouTube is trying to say "If you don't watch the ads, you are harming the poor, small content creators!"

	▲	slightwinder 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe, but that doesn't matter for this case. This is specifically about the view count, not whether you see the ads. But I've seen this was in the meanwhile merged with another thread, which is about the statement(?) from YouTube.

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stefan_ 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Requests that have no benefit for the user need to be blocked on that premise alone. Do your tracking whatever nonsense on your own computing, thanks very much.