I've never understood how this snake oil pretends to work.

>>109764625
Just check it vs your channels videos like/dislike rayio

>>109764625
it just tracks the ratio for extension users, multiplies by the like count, and probably applies some sort of bias given everyone downloaded the extension to dislike that one biden video or whatever inconvenient truth jewtube was trying to hide at the time

>dislikes
WHO THE FUCK CARES

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I WANT TO DISLIIIIIKE

>>109764611
You guys use too many extensions from what I’ve seen in other threads, they can be genuine security and privacy problems

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>>109764611 (You)
Stupid retard, its a change on mozilla's side required for extensions.
None of the permissions were changed since last year.

>>109764794
The web fucking sucks and has been sucking for a while, nowadays harder.
>they can be genuine security and privacy problems
But let's be frank here if you care about privacy & Security you shouldn't be going online.

>>109764840
>hurrrrrrrr Claude said
I don't care.

>>109764841
Do you think it’s worth giving more information to get visible dislikes?

>>109765169
>Windows User
sweden
yes

>>109764625
It has its own database of likes and dislikes. When you load a vid it extrapolates the ratio to fit the view count. '12% of watchers like videos' kind of a deal.

>>109765169
Yes.

>>109764625
It doesn't work. It just randomly multiplies a couple numbers taken from likes/dislikes (only from those who have installed the addon, mind you) and puts them on the screen.

>>109765849
The database is only based on those who have installed the addon, and thus it is useless as a real metric.

>>109765155
You know you could just clone the repo and check yourself, right? You can do manual slave labour instead of having the clanker do it for you if you'd like. Indebted servitude is not a bad thing if you willingly wish to enter yourself into.

>>109764611
It reminded me to delete this extension since I've moved to my local invidious instance

>>109765849
For videos that existed before dislikes were disabled, it also uses the real number as a base.
>>109766475
>randomly multiplies
Its basic math that's been clearly explained since the extension launched. If you don't understand why it does it, that's a you problem.
>useless as a real metric
Arguably it's even more useful. People with the extension are more likely to dislike scams and slop.
I don't care how accurate it is, I just know that if it's significantly worse than normal, I shouldn't waste my time on that video.

>>109764611
Not my problem. I run the greasemonkey script.

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>4 MiB script
lol

>personallyIdentifyingInfo
>Examples: contact information such as name and address, email, and phone number, as well as other identifying data such as ID numbers, voice or video recordings, age, demographic information, or biometric data.
lol

>>109764611
I saw it today. I deleted the extension. Problem solved.

>>109768220
>>4 MiB script
>lol
Blame Mozilla for not letting people minify / compress their scripts. They require everything to be written in full.
>>109768220
>>personallyIdentifyingInfo
>>Examples: contact information such as name and address, email, and phone number, as well as other identifying data such as ID numbers, voice or video recordings, age, demographic information, or biometric data.
That's just standard boilerplate because it has access to every page you're running in the browser since it needs that to function. They're not actually collecting any of that.
Mozilla has become increasingly retarded about this stuff which was let Gorhill to de-list uBlock Origin Lite off of the add-on store:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/197#issuecomment-2377395301

Another words, it is literally easier to lie and say "You collect all this" to pass the review even if you're not doing anything with it.

>>109768343
>Blame Mozilla for not letting people minify / compress their scripts
are you retarded? It's a 4 MiB script, what the fuck could possibly necessitate 4 MiB of code?
>That's just standard boilerplate because it has access to every page you're running in the browser since it needs that to function. They're not actually collecting any of that.
proof? Have you audited the source code? Have fun reading 4 MiB of code.

>>109768367
All of the code is on Github:
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

It's literally just modern JavaScript dependency bloat:

$ find . -type f -name "*.js" -print0 | du -h -c --files0-from=- | sort -h | tail
56K     ./Extensions/UserScript/e2e/userscript-navigation-lifecycle.e2e.js
64K     ./Extensions/e2e/shorts-placeholder-pool-contract.js
76K     ./Extensions/UserScript/live/live-scenarios.spec.js
88K     ./Extensions/UserScript/src/userscript-entry.js
92K     ./Extensions/e2e/hermetic-artifact-smoke.js
116K    ./Extensions/UserScript/Return Youtube Dislike.user.js
152K    ./Extensions/UserScript/e2e/navigation-matrix.js
176K    ./Extensions/UserScript/live/live-youtube-driver.spec.js
200K    ./Extensions/UserScript/e2e/live/live-youtube-driver.js
2.9M    total

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>>109768392
dumb retard, your browser doesn't clone the git repository when you install an extension.

>>109768410
No shit, it fetches the compiled extension from AMO. How do you think that single file was built?

>>109768416
dumb retard, I don't know how the file was built (it also doesn't matter) because the extension was built by the developer and there is no guarantee that what you see on github is the actual source code.
I'm looking at the actual source code of the extension that firefox installs.

>>109768431
>because the extension was built by the developer and there is no guarantee that what you see on github is the actual source code.
Mozilla requires the full source code to be submitted as part of the add-on submission and they verify that it can be re-produced:
https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/source-code-submission/

>>109768444
How does this matter though? It's still 5 MiB of code.
Stop being a dumb retard already.

>>109768453
It matters because you're making it out like the bloat is coming from the extension which is not the case:
>>109768392

Dependency bloat is nothing new. This is "modern" web development for you. It affects everything.

>search is fucked
>rating system is gone
>dislike is fucked
>browse history is fucked
>algorithm is fucked

Good lord.

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RIP in peace king

>>109768530
Gee like they fuck up web on purpose so we get outside and breed

>>109764611
just remove it, he probably sold it to someone or made a deal with a shady data company

>>109764611
>>109764625
The year is 2026 and people still care about irrelevant, made up pixels. Guys, the only addon that you need is uBO/uBO Lite, not even that on some web browsers. Come the fuck on, this is a Technology board, why are 90% of you retarded?

>>109764636
>>109764664
There is literally no reason to use it if you know how to do basic math and extrapolate the number for yourself.

>>109764611
are extension capabilities even properly enforced in modern browsers?
V3 seems like a bandaid on an infected wound

Improve Youtube has the same functionality with probably less than 50 lines
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-addon

>>109764611
Absolute Blyat

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>>109769959
wrong

>https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/issues/1316#issuecomment-5591453300
>can't enable in private windows because collecting dislikes likely runs afoul of new data collection rules
You gotta be shitting me. Surely there's a way to override that, because that policy is plain retarded.
I don't understand the obsession of crippling the functionality of private windows.

>>109769972
ok I was wrong
>220 lines of js
>50 lines of css
at least its not 4 MB

>>109770133
it's 3 MB, can't you read?

>>109769077
>breed

Implying outcasts like us would ever get a chance and participate in such nonsense

>>109770139
I already use the addon for some other features, its only 1000 bytes for me.

>>109764611
The reason they got rid of it, is because it was being abused. They shouldn't even have a "like" option.

>>109770171
lol
not a bad bait. Let's see if anyone bites

>>109770187
What do you mean bait? Big channels would send their audience to dislike bomb smaller channels' content all the time. 4cums would do the same.
If you like the vid you watch it all the way through. If you don't, you click off.
Your average watch time tells you if your content is shit or not. Like/dislike is to easily abused.

>>109770267
>it had nothing to do with yt's own yearly creator video being shit on for being shit
whatever you say bro

>>109770283
>Get owned
>No come back
>Just throws out whatever you say bro
Your concession has been received, reviewed, logged, and accepted.

>>109770330
keep going

>>109770267
Liking or disliking a video is a key part of the user experience. It complements the otherwise passive role of the viewer by allowing them to perform a small active action which (supposedly) helps out the creator in some small way and puts them into a group with everyone else who has done the same. You even used to see the whole number of likes and dislikes down to the single digits, which would satisfyingly increase by one when you clicked the button. The subscribe button also used to share a similar psychological appeal. The problem is that YouTube began evaluating these features on how they affect the content creators, rather than how they appeal to the psychology of the audience, who are the base of the platform.
Dislike-bombing is just an inverse of the same in-group signalling, which is very satisfying to us as tribal animals.

>>109770357
>who are the base of the platform
Not really. YouTube and YouTubers make most of their money on ad fraud so they only need a few million real viewers.

>>109764625
It doesn't, the dislikes come from the extension itself and nothing else.

>>109770357
>Liking or disliking a video is a key part of the user experience.
Bullshit. People are tribalistic idiots who deserve no power or say.
Look what's happens when you give a redditor the power of a mod. Anyone for that matter.
Any nugget of people goes straight to average persons head and it's instantly abused.
Vote kicking on R6 Siege was so abused they had to remove it. That's just a couple of examples.
People should be controlled. I agree with the billionaires. You're all just sheep you deserve no rights, no say, no power. So what the fuck you're told and stfu.

>>109771083
That was the mindset behind likes and dislikes in the first place, idiot. It was a placebo. Always was.

>>109764667
(you) do.

>>109771434
(you) are right. i don't understand why people need to see the dislike count.

>>109771506
Missing a discontinued feature I can understand. What I don't understand is trying to revive it through a combination of a tiny minority of users who have to go out of their way to specifically install a browser extension for it, combined with some mathematical extrapolation bullshit to make it seem like the result is representative of the "true and uncensored" popular opinion.

>>109768453
this message is the exact point in the debate where you have lost. LOL, what a subhuman deflection, shame on you and spit on you.

you should have admitted your ignorance about it and said sorry. you did not. people like you are the reason the world sucks. spit on you again.

>>109764611
The only 2 YouTube extensions you need are ublock origin and YouTube redux for a more reasonable UI.
Anything else and you’re respectfully doing too much

>>109764611
>>109768530
>>109769077
reminder that bolsheviks in russia were also jews and after they destroyed ussr they just moved to usa

>>109769171
Doesn't seem to be the case, rather Mozilla changed something about permissions so the extension now falls under different categories despite not changing anything.

people are more mad at the extension creator for doing nothing than mozilla for collecting data

godddd people are STUPID

>>109771083
you'd like north korea then.

>>109771083
good goy, voting under videos is a danger to our democracy

>>109764625
It's placeboware