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How to use this extension? This app is open-source and it can also be accessed through its GitHub page. Only the uploaders can now privately see the dislike count to their own videos via the platform's official systems. He also mentioned that the platform’s decision to completely remove the dislike count was a "stupid idea." On the contrary, Youtube decided to remove this feature as the same features were being abused for harassment. whether a YouTube video wrote, “The ability to easily and quickly identify bad content is an essential feature of a user-generated content platform”. This is a sentiment common to several other users including one of the co-founders of Youtube. Later, when we start collecting actual votes made by extension users-we won't be storing this data in an identifiable way-just anonymous IDs.” He added, “I mostly use YouTube for educational videos and tutorials-so not being able to see dislikes in these categories was quite hindering,” as he created this extension as the dislike count helps him to determine whether a YouTube video is good enough. We only store publicly available dislike counts. We don't even know the exact number of users (only the numbers provided by Chrome store and Firefox store)-since we don't store anything user-related.
In an exclusive interview to PCMag Selivanov says, “We're not collecting any private data. The FAQ also mentions that the extension also collects the IDs of the videos that the users are streaming, but only at an aggregate level. Privacy concerns In order to work properly, the extension will require permission to read and change data whenever your browser streams Youtube videos.
Moreover, you won’t be able to see the dislike count on the extension in real-time, instead, the latest version of the software will update them once every two or three days. So the accuracy of the dislike count can be expected to deteriorate with time and might affect the newly uploaded videos more. The FAQ for the extension states that once this API goes down, the extension will “switch to using a combination of archived dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data and estimates based on view/like ratios for videos whose dislikes weren't archived and for outdated dislike archives”.
Unfortunately, Google plans to shut down this API on December 13 and to counter this, Selivanov is archiving dislike counts for multiple videos across the platform. This means you will be able to see the accurate dislike counts and not just an estimate. This extension accesses Google’s own YouTube API to pull out the dislike count, which also opens third-party access to the video platform. Just stream any video on Youtube and the extension will re-add the dislike count to the video. This extension is an early alpha version, but it seems to work properly. The Chrome Web Store reports that this extension, named “Return YouTube Dislike,” has got more than 50,000 downloads. If you want to get back the dislike count of videos on Youtube, you can consider using this browser extension that will bring back the same function. A software developer named Dmitry Selivanov has developed an open-source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that can bring back the dislike count to any video on YouTube.