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We use an official YouTube app, and it’s all ad fraud.

It rapid rolls through video streams showing a second or two of each ad.

Presumably this is so Google can charge advertisers for impressions that don’t actually exist.

I've noticed this with shorts. I'll go through 20 or so, check my YT history and Google treats the worst ones as a watched video. I'll spend less than a second as my brain processes the slop and then skip. Sure as shit they act like I watched the whole video and recommend me more. It has to be some sort of revenue scam, no customer advantage has appeared to me yet.

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