It does, it shows up as a "Other YouTube features" for the source. Though, YouTube seems to do some aggressive deduping here, if I download from 5 different IP

It does, it shows up as a "Other YouTube features" for the source. Though, YouTube seems to do some aggressive deduping here, if I download from 5 different IPs, excluding the IP I'm logged into YouTube's services, I see 5 views. If I download 50 times from one IP, I see one view.