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.
Most larger creators say their funds come in three forms, from most payout to least: sponsorships, YT premium views, ad supported views.
A few outdoors/vanlife channels, who are an audience that’s pretty open about this sort of thing, have even gone through the stats on YT and what they make.
Bigger channels are businesses, so they do care, even if they’re teckie and likely used ad-blockers before getting in the biz.