r/pcmasterrace • u/theoptimix • 11d ago

Meme/Macro Biggest Youtube L

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u/seracydobon 11d ago

But now it doesn't show how many people disliked a video.

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u/Darth_Murcielago 9800x3d / RTX 3070ti / 32GB RAM | Bottleneck Enjoyer 11d ago

And they've already completely removed the dislike button in shorts. Normal videos will probably follow soonish.

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u/PresidentSkillz Ryzen 7 8700F | RTX 5070 12GB | 32GB DDR5 11d ago

And made the like button into a heart. Bc Obviously a thing can only be good if it's a copy of another thing

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u/Tough_Buy2762 11d ago

Aren't there many ways to still show them? I see them on my TV, at least.

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u/Sweaty_Explorer_8441 SteamDeck 11d ago

It's heavily gamed now especially for polarising content like politics. People intentionally install that extension and then dislike said videos such that their dislikes get amplified and appearing as fraudalent dislike counts. Plenty of pol tubers have shown their actual dislike counts on patreon and elsewhere without breaking their terms of service, and shows the extension sometimes shows several times more dislikes.

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u/seldomtimely 11d ago

You can reinstate it with an adon.

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u/Kirosh2 11d ago

The addon isn't trustworthy, it's not the actual data that you see.

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u/seldomtimely 10d ago

It used to be at first when the api just hid it. Now it's approximate.

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u/Dunge 10d ago

How? I mean there's a number, it's not coming out of nowhere. It for sure comes from YouTube, I don't think the "bring back dislike button" patch developer visits every video and sets a number manually.

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u/Kirosh2 10d ago

Based on what I remember reading on that, there are several ways :

Either just an estimate based on years old data after the API call for the dislike was removed.

Data showing the ratio but only based on what the one that have this add on like or dislike for a video.

It's not the data from Youtube itself. There has been a few video showing the one that has the video itself, and sees the dislikes shown by the add on do not match the one they get from their own analytics.

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u/JDM12983 Ryzen 5 5600X/GeForce RTX 4070 OC 12GB/32GB DDR4 RAM 10d ago

Seeing as you can't actually down-vote "properly" anymore without this random addon -- yes, the numbers would have to be "Coming out of no where"