ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happenedwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down19 cross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
arrow-up1513arrow-down1external-linkGoogle says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happenedwww.techradar.comardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square128linkfedilink cross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
minus-squareb34k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·2 months agoThe decline was very sudden, almost instantaneous, and can be traced back to the exact date a block list, used by most major desktop ad blockers, added the YouTube View Counter API endpoint to their list. But sure… nothing to do with ad blockers.
The decline was very sudden, almost instantaneous, and can be traced back to the exact date a block list, used by most major desktop ad blockers, added the YouTube View Counter API endpoint to their list.
But sure… nothing to do with ad blockers.