User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: January 6, 2016/@comment-3388044-20160108121823/@comment-3388044-20160108144121

No. Sadly, it’s permanent. Staff announced awhile back that they were not going be fixing the view counter for videos.

That’s two things that are really missed by our community:
 * the new video module on the right rail, and
 * the video views counter.