YouTube Admits to Autoplay Count Problem
Just a quick check in to let everyone know that we’re still trying to find out what’s up with YouTube apparently still
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So far YouTube has let us know it’s looking into the missing view issue, but it hasn’t confirmed or denied any aspect of it. However, in a
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That wording would seem to imply that YouTube did not knowingly crack down on autoplay abusers like Avril Lavigne fans, who had
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Girlfriend video in an attempt to make it the
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Evolution of Dance, with both videos accelerating to 92 million-some total views as competition has intensified over the last month).
(Some background on “autoplay”: While YouTube videos automatically start playing on its own pages, when they are embedded on other web pages they are set by default to wait for a user to click the play button. However, it’s possible to tweak the embed code so a video plays automatically each time someone visits a page. People do this in order to make it easier for visitors to watch videos and/or to increase their play counts.)
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