miskYouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos | TechCrunch
VoyajerSo now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?
catloafDidn’t they take away the dislike button?
JesusThe removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.
NutWrench“Return YouTube Dislike” extension for Firefox and Chrome.
It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension accesses…
Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.
Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that’s OK, as it’s open source and you can see how it’s calculated on their github.
It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.
It also archived a lot of video’s dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.
It’s “real” as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it’s just an estimate.