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thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here’s a random day example from mine:

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Unfortunately I can’t see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can’t see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the “unknown” buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don’t want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.

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