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return-youtube-dislike
Chrome extension to return youtube dislikes
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12 sourcesThe extensions display an estimate based on how many of the extension's users disliked the video. Youtube doesn't expose an API for getting the exact dislike count, except to the creator of the video.
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/blob/main/...
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...
In Las Vegas staff say MrBeast should be 'blacklisted', cite OSHAWell, if you're comfortable with sending your youtube view history to another website.
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/blob/5c738...
In YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTubeYou cannot longer see the true like/dislike ratio. They removed the dislike count even from the API since December 13th [0]. The extension does some guesswork to calculate that for you [1].
This library also doesn't give you the dislikes anymore (just tested it).
[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...
[1] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike#what-it-do...
In Youtube.js – full-featured wrapper around YouTube's private APIThese guys are working to get our precious dislikes back: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
In Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?If anyone wants to restore the dislike count there is this chrome ext that works great https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
In YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike countSee also:
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube#Removal_of_pu...
In YouTube-Dislikes Tracker> With the removal of dislike stats from the YouTube API, our backend will switch to using a combination of scraped dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data and estimates based on view\like ratios.
In case anyone is wondering, the extension seems to calculate the dislike count from the average rating, which is something that the YouTube API still returns. The average rating is calculated as follows [1]:
(like * 5) + (dislike)
---------------------- * 5
(like + dislike) * 5
If you do some algebra, the dislike count is calculated as (likes * (5 - rating)) / (rating - 1), which is what the author uses in their code [2]. I'm not sure what they mean by using "a combination of scraped dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data, and estimates based on view\like ratios" because I don't see them explicitl
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y using anything like that in their code. Maybe it's something for the future. Hopefully someone can clarify what they mean by this statement.
[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29663#issuecom...
[2] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
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