How is this embed autoplay Youtube video counting as views? or is it?

So I came across this social exchange site: utubehits - cant post full url. Just search on Google.
Basically, you can watch other people's vids to earn them views. The way this do this
is through embedding an old embed youtube code that autoplays instead of loading the whole
url in a popup window.

The thing is, you don't click on the video to play it, it's on auto play which after testing multiple times
on my site and other sites, it wouldn't count as a view unless the video is manually clicked on.

Also, when I looked at a particular video on their page, it had e.g 160 views, I kept refreshing their
autoplay videos, the views never increased.

This tells me that their views exchange is fake and that they use their own bots for the views part.
This is what most sites do regardless of having manual exchanges for views/visits.

Unless they somehow do something? Ideas?

Thanks.

Views from autoplay videos do not count.

out of interest, is it using the old <object> embed code (flash player)?

Yes I think so together with the youtube slash v slash id instead of slash embed.
As for the Object embed code, not too sure.