There is no balancing happening here. YouTube needs to make an API call to attribute a view to a video, and easylist started blocking that API call. YouTube was perfectly happy a month ago to count views for users that were blocking ads, and presumably remains happy to do so.

The only thing that changed is easylist blocked the API.

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hananova 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The do not need an API call, obviously they know that the video is being watched, because it's being streamed.

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granzymes 5 days ago | parent [-]

YouTube serves videos from CDNs, many of which it does not own.

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moffkalast 4 days ago | parent [-]

I missed the part where that's our problem.

	▲	zeroimpl 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Metrics from the CDN will be wildly inaccurate. Also downloading a video isn’t the same as watching it.

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justinclift 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The only thing that changed is easylist blocked the API.

Wonder if there's a good reason they started blocking that API?