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[-] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago

no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?

[-] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

yeah it works good enough for people who knows what's going on.

[-] istdaslol@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

I don’t want my watchlist stored on a random third party server

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

To save you time avoiding a bad instructional video.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's a good enough approximation. Do you really need to know if the massively downvoted video had 357,923 downvotes or 357,924?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

And they have data for older videos from before the button was disabled so those are accurate

[-] gezero@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

There are dozens of us

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 day ago

I had to get rid of it when it caused massive slowdowns for me. That's probably fixed by now...

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