Does the number of views on an SO question exclude my own views?

Question

I have already read 2 other similar questions on meta - this one and this one. However I still don't see the answer to my specific question - are my own views on my questions excluded from the count?

Answer 1

They are included in the count. If you refresh the page after a few minutes, you will see that the counter has increased.

I discovered this feature when I periodically refreshed my question to check for new answers and comments. At every refresh, the counter increased by at least one.

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A commenter said that s/he don't like that his/her own views are also counted on own questions. Me neither. A long time ago, I have created the following userscript.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           SO: Do not increase view count
// @namespace      Rob W
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10541225/*
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8893269/*
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9519676/*
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847580/*
// @run-at         document-start
// ==/UserScript==

location.href = 'javascript:(' + function(){
    var qid = '/posts/' + /\/questions\/(\d+)/.exec(location.pathname)[1] + '/ivc';
    var xhr_proto = XMLHttpRequest.prototype;
    var orig_open = xhr_proto.open;
    xhr_proto.open = function(type, url, async, username, password) {
        if ((url+'').substr(0, qid.length) === qid) {
            orig_open.call(this, 'get', '/reputation');
            console.log('Cancelled ' + url);
        } else {
            orig_open.apply(this, arguments);
        }
    };
} + ')();'
console.log('No IVC at ' + location.pathname);

To add a new question to the no-view list, just add @include http://<site>/questions/<id>/* in the meta-data section.

This is not restricted to your own questions. In fact, Using @include * will block the view counting on any site which matches the Stack Exchange's view counting method.

Use case: I want to see if my monitored questions have received any updates. When I open the question with my script enabled, I won't get the false hope that someone is looking at it ;)