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by tehwebguy 2262 days ago
My guess is it's more likely some YouTube employees hacked around this as a show of "support" for YouTubers?
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More likely they have a cache for the views with a longer expiration time set than the update interval of Scott's script.
That's unnecessary. The slower the view count updates (and it's very slow), then the more likely the title is to be correct.
That's what I thought too. He probably got a rate limit lifted.