• Voyajer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?

      • Jesus@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        The removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.

          • Moneo@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Works surprisingly well even after all this time. I often forget its been removed.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            5 months ago

            It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.

            I imagine it’s taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.

            • Joelk111@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.

              Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that’s OK, as it’s open source and you can see how it’s calculated on their github.

              It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.

              It also archived a lot of video’s dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.

              As a user of the extension who knows how it works (no thanks to yourself), take it with whatever sized grain of salt you feel comfortable with.

            • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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              5 months ago

              It is real, it’s just not data from YouTube. The information on how it works is made very clear, and people using it should be aware of the drawbacks.

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          5 months ago

          The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.

      • Alk@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        The dislike bar was real, I’ll tell ya, I’ve lived nigh on eighty years and me own two eyes seent the dislike bar clear as day! Ye better believe, sonny, it’s the truth!

      • Retiring@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        I don’t see what was wrong with the comment of /u/voyajer. Can you elaborate?

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the “yes” and “no” as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).