Why items on the Internet Archive rarely get to 10 million views, while YouTube videos you never heard of can reach 17 billion:
YouTube is completely gamified, the Internet Archive is not. There is a culture around getting views on YouTube, and people make money off of it. Due to the monetization aspect, people farm views on YouTube (and not everyone realizes that revenue comes from watch time, not views) there are frequently data centers that are built just to house computers that click on, and play YouTube videos back without anyone truly watching them, just to create revenue for the creator.
The Internet Archive is not monetized (there are ads, but only voluntary ones, meaning you have to find an ad someone uploaded (usually as part of a compilation video/audio track, part of branding in a software piece, or part of a magazine) these don't generate any revenue) and there aren't any data centers doing this, as there is no incentive to do so.
Additionally, the same Google account can watch the same YouTube video over 1,000 times, and that can count as 1,000 views (contrary to popular belief, it does not stop at 301. I tested it back in 2017, all 1.1k views are still there, as of 2026, June 13th, back during my regrettable YouTube career)
The Internet Archive does not allow this.
I feel that the vast majority of views (at least 80-90% of all views, trillions of views) on YouTube are not genuine, and are just gaming the system. They can commonly consist of people accidentally clicking on a video, people clicking onto the video repeatedly but also discretely enough for YouTube to not care, having another program (such as Discord) autoload the video (see the incident where a video received over a billion views in less than 24 hours. This was corrected, but imagine how many other programs can do something like this, and not gain the attention to fix it) or having the video autoplay.
In the instance of YouTubes most popular video (baby shark) videos on YouTube Kids get very high view counts, due to their audience, and how many parents use YouTube as their babysitter.

Most viewed video on the Internet Archive in the Community Video collection. (17,591,323 views)
https://archive.org/details/vietnam-travel-guide-hanoi-ha-long-bay-ho-chi-minh-1_202101

Most viewed video on YouTube (17,000,000,000+ views, I don't want to click on it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&pp=ygUKYmFieSBzaGFyaw%3D%3D

#youtube #clickfraud #internetarchive #views #hitcount #hits #statistics #google #gamification

“it appears that a significant portion of that traffic on X could be fake, according to data provided to Mashable by CHEQ, a leading cybersecurity firm that tracks bots and fake users.

According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake. “

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

#extwitter #ClickFraud #ElonMusk #infosec #x

I had a vague idea of what happened to ES File Explorer with it becoming adware & being removed from Google Play, but the issue had gone on longer than that & been worse than that. holy shit, rest in piss. I don't think anything will ever come close to the capabilities of ES File Explorer, there will never be a file manager as good, & that was all lost for quick money. Hijacking the lock screen, adware, clickfraud, & privacy issues.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_File_Explorer

#adware #clickfraud #filemanager #FileExplorer

Referenced link: https://thehackernews.com/2022/09/microsoft-warns-of-large-scale-click.html
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Originally posted by The Hacker News / @[email protected]: https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/1571784021855838210#m

#Microsoft warns of an ongoing large-scale #CLICKfraud campaign targeting gamers by secretly installing browser extensions on compromised systems.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/09/microsoft-warns-of-large-scale-click.html

#cybersecurity #infosec #hacking