Using public api incorrectly increases page view count

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When using the public api, as in:
https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/xxpageidxx/activities/public
to get the page posts, this causes the page "viewed" count to increase.

for example, go to my page:
https://plus.google.com/109669748550259696558/posts

and notice it has over 17,000 page views. This is misleading. The page is for a 
chrome extension I develop which does have over 3,000 users but they rarely go 
to the plus page. The extension itself is checking for new posts (about twice a 
day on users of my extension), and this is causing the page view count to go up.
I think the page count should only go up when being visited from a browser and 
not with an api GET request.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by zig.man...@cloudware360.com.pe on 2 Apr 2014 at 1:49

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I should also explain that my chrome extension gets posts so it can detect new 
posts not yet seen by the current user. When there are new posts an icon shows 
up which opens the g+ page when clicked. But I post at most once a week so 
users dont open the page that often, to get to 17,000 those 3,000 users would 
need to open the page several times and I simply havent posted enough new posts 
for this to happen, so I assume the page count is comming mostly from the API 
calls.

Original comment by zig.man...@cloudware360.com.pe on 2 Apr 2014 at 1:53