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IIRC, only plays on youtube.com are counted towards video view counts.This appears to be untrue. [1, 2] It seems that embed views count, except possibly where autoplay is enabled (presumably because the video might be shown when no one is watching).
1: https://www.alliedpixel.com/2019/09/do-embedded-youtube-vide...
2: https://boostlikes.com/blog/2014/08/youtube-video-views-embe...
