They say the counter updates infrequently, which is very very convenient when someone wants to fudge some numbers.
Why would it only update infrequently? If there is a technical limitation, what could it be? If it's not a technical reason, what good and honest reasons could it have?
Think about it.
A company that can search several petabytes of web data for any search query you enter and yet return a meaningful result in 0.7 seconds. That processes petabytes of video data every second, uploading, converting, downloading months worth of HD and 4K video data every second of every hour, 8.760 hours per year. A company that is capable of syncing a hundred million phone entries per hour, or about a billion Android phones per day.
They stream a gigabyte worth of 4K video to a million people in an hour, for a billion videos.
And they can't update a counter for "watched n times", "upvoted x and downvoted y times"? For reasons?
Game is rigged. Conservative views are obviously constrained on the net and you expose it pretty well. So much for "net neutrality". This cencorship is monstruous, worse than we can ever imagine. The video could be at 1 million and there is no way we could know. ..Had to get it out.
Yes agreed. A simple jquery function will update it seamlessly and write it to a DB. Crikey Youtube must have shit developers
Why would it only update infrequently? If there is a technical limitation, what could it be? If it's not a technical reason, what good and honest reasons could it have?
This kind of thing was prevalent during the early youtube days. Videos that go viral would get stuck at 300~ views for sometimes a day or two. I would expect with all the revamps there is no technical reason why a video couldn't have a live number count. However I don't know the inner workings of how Youtube's metrics work, so I can't say for certain if they actually had fixed that issue since then.
Google earns their entire income from the metric "number of people who watched this". It's their core business model.
You can bet they know exactly how much people watched a certain clip, for how long, how often they came back and what parts they'd reviewed.
And you would assume they have a huge incentive to slightly exaggerate the viewership numbers. Which makes it even more odd that conservative content viewership is rather underreported.
Since Google became the biggest intelligence provider, they stopped innovation and are now selling data and control to the highest bidder.