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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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submitted 1 month ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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First time this happens to me. With a German protonvpn server.

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[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This can be a soft limit where Youtube limits the connection rate so that artificially inflating view count becomes more costly. There are inexpensive 'services' especially in India or Pakistan where you can buy human (like a whole internet cafe) view times to your scam video to make it float in suggestions and to promote a channel.

I don't work for youtube so it is just a guess.