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		hananova 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to ... The do not need an API call, obviously they know that the video is being watched, because it's being streamed.

granzymes 63 days ago [–]

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

moffkalast 63 days ago | [–]

I missed the part where that's our problem.

zeroimpl 63 days ago | | [–]

Metrics from the CDN will be wildly inaccurate. Also downloading a video isn’t the same as watching it.

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