[DarkKnight]

YouTube videos' view counter famously gets stuck at "301+" views, but that beautifully ambiguous state is going away forever. YouTube announced this morning that it's doing away with 301+ and will start to keep video views more up to date. It's long frozen the counter after 301 so that it can take some time to filter out any fake views from robots, but doing so has meant keeping the counter really imprecise while thousands of legitimate views come in.

YouTube says that it'll now continue to add new views as they happen, as long as it's sure that they're genuine; views that YouTube suspects as coming from bots will be added later if they're cleared. This should help video creators get a better perception of how their video is doing early on, but mostly, it'll mean viewers saying goodbye to knowing that a video is brand new because it's stuck at 301+.

Seems that YouTube's video filtering has become sophisticated enough that they are confident to remove the 301+ pause. This update seems to go along with the new YouTube video player format.

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[Dismas]

Didn't even know about the "301+". Neat to know they are getting rid of it. I wonder if it will make their filtering less efficient, though.

[roger_smith]

no more 301+ is kind of an end of an era man.

[Customer]

Finally, seriously didn't like that.

[mothered]

It's all for the better.

I'm actually quite surprised that YouTube didn't rectify this earlier. It's been an Issue for many years until now.

[lionking]

This is good that they are removing the 301 pause
But the funny thing is that i didnot even know about this pause :p

[OversouL]

On the other hand, youtube now has 8K resolution and my computer can't even handle 1080p.

[Pirate]

Yeah, I heard they were getting rid of this (As well as google plus )

The only reason they had this was for botting protection, which obviously didn't work