| ▲ | jsnell 5 days ago | |
What you're ignoring is that this was a change to an ad blocker[0], not a change to the site. Google did not implement a change to stop counting views. An ad blocker intentionally[1] choosing to block the long-standing API calls used for the view statistics. How would you propose Google fix this, when there is an adversarial team in control of what requests many browser may make, and are choosing to use it to break the site? [0] Or rather, an URL block list used by many ad blockers. [1] It was almost certainly an honest mistake originally. But when the blocklist authors were informed of the problem and chose to not roll back the change, it became intentional. | ||
| ▲ | chris_wot 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
Google could improve the way they serve ads. Like, one ad per “ad session”, no 5 minute ads that are longer than the video you are trying to watch, etc. They are trying to increase ad revenue, but by increased Nguyen ads and making it harder to skip them it ironically is causing much worse practices such as ad blocking. | ||