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Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by reassess_blind »

Bratmon wrote: post #38
snug wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio

Subtle correction: The extension shows how many users of the extension downvoted the video. It has no way of knowing what non-extension-users did.

Yes, but I believe it shows an estimate of the total downvotes based on the proportion of its own users who have liked vs disliked.

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by QuadmasterXLII »

gruez wrote: post #33
QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #31

I highly recommend following the official tutorial to create a browser extension for your preferred browser, and just making any changes to websites there instead of installing extensions made by someone else. For example, removing youtube shorts is like five lines of code in my personal extension. The rate at which published browser extensions turn into malware has escalated from “oh that’s concerning” to “How many…

You don't even need to make your own extension, which requires a bunch of boilerplate and docs. Userscripts (eg. greasemoney) or userstyles (eg. stylus) is often all you need, and much more straightforward to make.

Is there a browser with native userscripts? because if I install a userscript extension, its just going to get push-updated to add malware like OP

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by Tadpole9181 »

andromedaM31 wrote: post #17
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't feel for the developer. If donations is smaller than hosting costs, just stop putting time into it. It's a stupid gimmick anyway.

I consider it to be more valuable than a "stupid gimmick", even if more in message than in direct utility - it fights to retain peer-voting and crowdsourced evaluation on the quality of online information, which is something that seems to be dwindling away with each passing year.

The problem is that the number you see is pointless. There's a limited demographic who cares about the dislike numbers so much they go out and install a browser extension, which in then biases how they react to a video.

It's basically an echo chamber extension.

Not sure what you mean by "fight back", either. Google 100% could not care less if you install this extension. They aren't bringing it back unless the division's leadership has a change of heart on whatever internal goals they wanted to achieve by removing it.

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by LocalH »

Bratmon wrote: post #38
snug wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio

Subtle correction: The extension shows how many users of the extension downvoted the video. It has no way of knowing what non-extension-users did.

IIRC, in the earliest days, the extension reported the dislike count that was still in the API but not surfaced in any clients. At some point after that, Google removed the count from the API entirely, requiring the current piecemeal approach.

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by Bratmon »

LocalH wrote: post #45
Bratmon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subtle correction: The extension shows how many users of the extension downvoted the video. It has no way of knowing what non-extension-users did.

IIRC, in the earliest days, the extension reported the dislike count that was still in the API but not surfaced in any clients. At some point after that, Google removed the count from the API entirely, requiring the current piecemeal approach.

That was true for about 3 weeks (ie. less than 2% of the extension's history)

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by Bratmon »

mrkramer wrote: post #42

At this point it would be better to start building and working on new web video hosting platform than to cry over feature that is most likely never coming back.

The users of this extension balked at paying for the upkeep of a 15TB database of (user, like) mappings.

Do you really think they're gonna financially support an entire video hosting platform?

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by mrkramer »

Bratmon wrote: post #48
mrkramer wrote: post #42

At this point it would be better to start building and working on new web video hosting platform than to cry over feature that is most likely never coming back.

The users of this extension balked at paying for the upkeep of a 15TB database of (user, like) mappings. Do you really think they're gonna financially support an entire video hosting platform?

I meant if you don't like YouTube, try to make an alternative. Prototype it and look for venture capital.

Re: "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads

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Post by snug »

Bratmon wrote: post #38
snug wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio

Subtle correction: The extension shows how many users of the extension downvoted the video. It has no way of knowing what non-extension-users did.

The paid for feature seems to show the number of dislikes that have the extension installed, however what is shown is the estimated number of dislikes based on the actual number of likes youtube shows, so if the extension users have a like/dislike ratio of 50%, and there youtube shows 1000 likes, the extension estimates that there are also a 1000 users that disliked the video, even though there may only be 1 like and 1 dislike from the extension users, which would be very obvious that the estimate is very off.
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