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- Mar 16, 2023
Yes and it's annoying when perusing recommends a bit too lazily, inevitably History ends up with some interesting results that I don't even recall having seen listed. Not too many, but enough to be confused about what someone else was watching on another device (shared results from other family members on set tops, etc). For the most part, it's accurate though.Google does, if it exceeds 5 seconds.
Google tracking is insidious. Because so many admins use GA/Google Adwords, which GA uses scripts for, that means their code runs on most websites and they have most of the web pegged. Even calling up their fonts will run a script and one would have to be pretty naive to believe they aren't using those statistics to beef up their data. It can be easily justified to say they must pull device data in order to load the appropriate font for the best experience possible. Debate over, simps won back. I remember one time taking a plane trip with Google Location History enabled and it actually noted in my history which plane number I took, at which time and what airport I left and landed at in Google Location History. Completely pointless for my usage (obviously I know what plane I was on!) but they thought it important to note. Androids also track footsteps and when riding in a car using the accelerometer, iirc. FB keeps shadow profiles on non-users when admins dubiously include their commenting platform on their websites, so they also manage to build a similar data cache across the web.
I say all this shit to say: that Youtube is only accurate by virtue of the other unrelated tracking that goes on across the web tracking our devices and every move in the real world.
Rumble is a shoestring refugee video platform. It likely conveniently tracks everything and anything to count as views. There's no profit motive in being accurate with their numbers. They may choose to be technically accurate using some very literal method, but still run through the results and represent them in a disingenuous manner. I agree with the other person on here who mentions chat usage. User engagement numbers are the best metric for tracking the health of a channel regardless of count accuracy. Rekieta won't care anyway as long as he gets paid and can use the inflated charts to self-promote. "Everyone's doing it!"
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