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Is YouTube telling the truth about views · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: So I ran into my old pal Aragor and son
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  Speaker 1: of Arethoin, and he says to me, riders of Roehan,
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  Speaker 1: what news from the mock, to which I replied, Buddy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, but I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you the dech News YouTube has finally addressed concerns
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  Speaker 1: over view counts raised by a good number of creators
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  Speaker 1: in recent weeks, including Red Letter Media, Second Win, and
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  Speaker 1: even awkward teenager with a full beard Linus Tectips of Bastion.
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  Speaker 1: YouTube's response, as delivered in a support article published this morning,
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  Speaker 1: essentially boils down to skill issue. It's all on your head,
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  Speaker 1: get good plub. The article first addresses the idea that
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  Speaker 1: the reason view counts suddenly dropped in mid August was
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  Speaker 1: due to YouTube rolling out age verification. This is a
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  Speaker 1: hypothesis that Red Letter Media talked about in their video,
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  Speaker 1: but they referred to accounts that had been age restricted
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  Speaker 1: as having restricted mode automatically turned on, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: led YouTube to spend this whole section clarifying that restricted
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  Speaker 1: mode can only be manually turned on. It's a separate
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  Speaker 1: thing that has absolutely nothing to do with what they
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  Speaker 1: call age restricted content. Restricted mode restricts the viewing of
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  Speaker 1: videos based on whether they're appropriate for kids, but that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the videos blocked by restricted mode are
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  Speaker 1: classified as age restricted content. Doesn't make sense. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: part of the response was super helpful and not addressing
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  Speaker 1: the question of whether the age verification rollout, which happened
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  Speaker 1: on August thirteenth, has anything to do with the massive
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  Speaker 1: views drop reported by creators around the same time. So
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  Speaker 1: thanks for that YouTube. The other major hypothesis going around
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  Speaker 1: is that YouTube has stopped counting views from devices using
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  Speaker 1: an ad blocker, or they've changed the way they count
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  Speaker 1: views in some way. But YouTube says, you fool, We've
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  Speaker 1: done no such thing. There is no systemic issue that
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  Speaker 1: is impacting creators. Okay, but there's just one problem, as
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  Speaker 1: pointed out by Linus and one of lmg's best boys,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Besser on The Wan Show. While views have dropped,
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  Speaker 1: the ratio of likes to dislikes has shot up, and
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  Speaker 1: the revenue per video is about the same despite lower views,
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  Speaker 1: which would be consistent with ad block views not counting anymore,
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  Speaker 1: as YouTube creators only get revenue if the viewer seas
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  Speaker 1: an ad That's just how it works. Then there's this
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  Speaker 1: little detail spotted by Josh Streif Hayes. It's views from
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  Speaker 1: computer users specifically that have dropped, you know, the device
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  Speaker 1: on which it's easiest to install an AD blocker. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what. You may have noticed our views have
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  Speaker 1: also been down since mid August. So let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at our views from mobile. It looks mostly fine.
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  Speaker 1: TV Yeah, seems normal computer whall. Okay, but YouTube's probably right.
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  Speaker 1: We're just a victim of on platform competition. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's just hard for me to grasp that because we're
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  Speaker 1: the only tech news channel on YouTube. I checked. Eden,
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  Speaker 1: a Nintendo switch emulator, has launched on the Google play Store.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the first switch emulator on the playstore. The
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  Speaker 1: infamous Uzu emulator was also available on the platform before
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  Speaker 1: being thoroughly destroyed by Nintendo's legal team. Eden is a
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  Speaker 1: fork of Yuzoo, apparently built by a team of masochistic developers.
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  Speaker 1: Its brazen release onto the Playstore has fans excited, but
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  Speaker 1: also probably wincing a little bit as they wait for
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  Speaker 1: a legal orbital strike from the Mushroom Kingdom. According to
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  Speaker 1: Eden's playstore page, the emulator focuses on high performance without
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  Speaker 1: compromising esthetics, compatibility, or stability, and that concentration on performance
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  Speaker 1: is one of the more attractive points about switch emulators
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  Speaker 1: in general, because Nintendo hardware, first party hardware, is rarely
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  Speaker 1: the best place to actually play Nintendo games. For example,
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  Speaker 1: just this weekend, Digital Foundry released a video about how
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  Speaker 1: the switch to CPU U holds back the performance of
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  Speaker 1: games that use Unreal Engine five. With a nearly constant
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  Speaker 1: stream of new Android powered handhelds, the timing of Eden's
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  Speaker 1: release seems great, but we'll just have to see how
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  Speaker 1: long they can dodge the wrath of Nintendo. Good luck, Eden,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sorry for bringing attention to you. Invidia is
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  Speaker 1: being accused of violating anti monopoly laws by a Chinese
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  Speaker 1: regulatory body. These enormous corporations just cannot catch a break.
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  Speaker 1: China launched the investigation into Nvidia's business practices back in
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  Speaker 1: December twenty twenty four over in Vidia's potential failure to
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  Speaker 1: comply with government provisions in its acquisition of US Israeli
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  Speaker 1: chip designer Melanox Technologies back in twenty twenty The specifics
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  Speaker 1: of Nvidia's breach of those provisions are still vague, but
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  Speaker 1: the timing of this whole scenario makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation into Nvidia started only a week after the
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  Speaker 1: US announced tougher export controls on certain chips and chip
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  Speaker 1: making equipment going into China, and now the Chinese regulator's
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  Speaker 1: accusation of monopolistic behavior from Nvidia comes just as US
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  Speaker 1: and Chinese officials meet in Madrid for trade talks. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe in Nvidia is as bad as China is making
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  Speaker 1: them out to be. Or maybe this is all just
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  Speaker 1: part of a political game between two global superpowers. Or
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  Speaker 1: But I said, old Jois's friend, these quick bits will do.
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  Speaker 1: Just just find TikTok might be sticking around in the
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  Speaker 1: US after all. While in Madrid for the US's trade
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  Speaker 1: talks with China, US Trade Secretary Scott Bessen told reporters
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  Speaker 1: that the two countries have reached a framework on a
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  Speaker 1: deal to switch TikTok from the hands of Byte Dance
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  Speaker 1: into US controlled ownership, and one key to the deal
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  Speaker 1: succeeding was the fact that China is interested in Chinese
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  Speaker 1: characteristics of the app, but the US doesn't care about
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  Speaker 1: Chinese Characteristics has been given until September seventeenth to make
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  Speaker 1: a deal or they risk being banned from the US,
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  Speaker 1: but this date has already been pushed back before and
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  Speaker 1: probably will be again. The perpetual doom scroll continues. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: Snapdragon Elite eight Gen five, a doozy of a name
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  Speaker 1: that kicked off a conversation about whether Qualcom had maybe
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  Speaker 1: Snapdragon eight Elite no gens two to two four. I
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  Speaker 1: it's a signal that this platform leads the family forward.
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  Speaker 1: And why is it called elite again? Because it is
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  Speaker 1: elite awesome? Just checking. Thank you. Google has had a
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  Speaker 1: to its friends, the publisher of Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard,
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter, and they're also an investor in Box Media,
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  Speaker 1: all my aunt's, uncles and parents' favorites. Pmc's complaint claims
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  Speaker 1: that Google's AI overviews give someone no reason to actually
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  Speaker 1: click on the source of the information that the AI
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  Speaker 1: just summarized, and that results in a loss of traffic
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  Speaker 1: for pmc's sites. We've talked about this before in the Channel.
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  Speaker 1: In a statement, pmc's CEO J Penske said that PMC
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  Speaker 1: will proactively fight for the future of digital media and
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  Speaker 1: preserve its integrity, all of which is threatened by Google's
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  Speaker 1: And TSMC is buzzing about their newest announcement. Uh is
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  Speaker 1: that a pun? Maybe the company, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer,
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  Speaker 1: is getting into the honey business, not the extension and Nope.
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  Speaker 1: As Tom's Hardware states, TSMC has worked with local beekeepers
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  Speaker 1: in Taiwan to produce GM TSMC branded honey. Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: Taiwanese business isn't just getting into the venture for the
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  Speaker 1: honey money. Though these beekeeping efforts are to show off
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  Speaker 1: that TSMC is environmentally responsible and their operations don't affect
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  Speaker 1: the natural ecosystems around their facilities like at all an
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  Speaker 1: uplifting story, But when that makes me hungry, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: one sided conversations with my TV while I rewatch Lord
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  Speaker 1: of the Rings. Bye bye now