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[–] 33 points 3 months ago (10 children)

no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    What's the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's more complicated than that. The button still exists even without the add-on and the back end factors it in and I think shows the creator, but doesn't show it to the front end. So the add-on doesn't have the real numbers but there still are real numbers

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    yeah the only thing you see with the add-on is the stats for the people who have the add-on, which ideally would statistically approximate the actual data but we all know that it's not even close.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    It is surprisingly close. I download a lot of videos with yt-dlp and have seen ratios where up to 20% of total likes being from Return YouTube Dislike users.

    Like here's a video with 188,573 likes in total of which 28,330 were submitted to the data base:

    https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/votes?videoId=dtjb2OhEQcU

    The users disliked 130 times which was extrapolated to 356. No idea how that formula works, I believe users with this plugin could be more likely to dislike videos than users without that plugin which may be factored in.

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