Agree, however view counts, i.e. metrics tracked by YT, or by sponsors,creators in fancy dashboards isn't the view counter we are shown and nobody is questioning how those are implemented. The View Counter means very specific UI component in YT interface shown to regular users.
> view counter isn't for you
Disagree,
View counter is a important decision making input along with the thumbnail, title and duration of the video on if a user will click on the video to watch them.
It is in effect an advertisement for the video.
If that wasn't the case, then YouTube wouldn't be showing them in every list view and next to every thumbnail. When the numbers no longer represent what the users think they represent I would say it is not far from false advertising.
A fair amount of people on here and I have both YT Premium and also use some adblocker, should our views be counted or not according to this point of view? .