• Moneo@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Works surprisingly well even after all this time. I often forget its been removed.

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        5 months ago

        It isn’t a real count of users who have clicked the dislike button, YouTube no longer makes that data available.

        So I would not put much stock in that number.

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                  5 months ago

                  Creators can view their like and dislike percentage, and around when the extension came about, many large youtubers were able to confirm the accuracy of the guesstimate that the extension gives you (on new content after the dislike indicator was removed). There are enough users and historical data to make the calculations reeeeally close.

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      5 months ago

      It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.

      I imagine it’s taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.