I’m not too tech savvy so I appreciate responses in layman’s terms.

I have a rough concept of how NewPipe works, (correct me if I’m wrong though!) basically it’s a scrapper so it somehow reads the information in YouTube, anonymously, and filters the ads for you.

What I’m interested in knowing is, how does this behaviour look like from YouTube’s perspective. Can the platform “tell” that someone is accessing their content but not the ads that should go before and inbetween the videos? Do these views requested by NewPipe count towards the global amount of views a video has? Do content creators still get money from youtube ads with NewPipe views? Do they also get to see engagement data from views (such as which parts are skipped)? Etc etc.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    EDIT!

    I have compled the data from today! It is in a comment ot this comment!

    EDIT!

    I may be able to help…

    While I am definately not a youtuber, I do have a few random videos on my channel, here is a test video from when I bought my Sigma 100-400mm telezoom lens for my Lumix S5.

    Give it a few views with different frontends and I’ll check the stats later this evening…

    Note however that no videos I have on my channel is monetized, which might skew the data, but it us the best I can offer:

    https://youtu.be/cKHi_K_AQVs?si=5tkVIyng7yjECSm4

    EDIT:

    I will shortly head to work, but so far the most interesting stat I have seen today is this:

    Even with this limited stats you can clearly see that some of the external frontends are listed as “Other Youtube Features”

    I’ll get back with more stats after work, or when I see that they have compiled, I will try and get all data I can, I may not be able to enterpret it, but I will do my best to post when I have.