ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoGoogle says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happenedwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1480arrow-down16
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minus-squareb34k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 hours 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.