Google will count the impressions of YouTube clips "from the first frame played", regardless of the format

Zona IT by Aurelian Mihai 18 August 2026, 15:58 EEST machine translated

After driving YouTube users in the group who "benefit" from the automatic reactivation of the Autoplay function out of their minds, Google now shows the motivation to the world: artificially inflating YouTube viewing statistics by counting all the impressions generated. The following scenario is given: you have just started the YouTube application and you are…

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