It estimates dislike amount. I might be wrong but the way it works is that it puts likes from everyone, dislikes from ones who has this extension and an overall view count, mixes this data up in a formula and gives an output of approximate dislike count. Factual count is only known to creators.
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13igTyme@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
There’s an extension that adds the dislike count back.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s unreliable from what I have read
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Of course it is, because YouTube doesn’t provide the data so it is forced to derive the rating only from people who use that extension.
bilb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’d always wondered how that worked.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh no! I thought it accessed some YouTube API that exposed the dislike data, but of course even if it did that, that data wouldn’t have dislikes from people that don’t have the extension!
The point is I’m now even more heartbroken about the loss of the Neutral video’s balance.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My understanding is that It works by storing number of likes and dislikes and computes a ratio then extrapolates it using the number of likes provided by YouTube API.
Here what their site says:
www.returnyoutubedislike.com/faq
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not exact, but it’s still a useful indicator.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, I wouldn’t say unreliable. It does not match the real dislike count, because it only knows about the people using the extension. It’s like the difference between the official rating of an app on the google play store and some third party user review site. It’s not that one is more reliable than other, just different people contribute.