Talk:List of most-disliked YouTube videos/Archive 4
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Jishiboka1 in topic 18 million dislikes on youtube short - how to add?
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Where are the numbers coming from?
How are numbers being updated ff YouTube quit publicly displaying likes? Mike Allen 01:47, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- Presumably, using the browser extensions mentioned in the article. I think it's disingenuous for this article to report official YouTube dislike numbers/ratios with the unofficial browser extension estimates. The article will be stronger if we cut it off when they removed the button. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:55, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- The button is not removed. It is still there. What YouTube did is that it started to hide the number of dislikes a video got. But viewers can still see how many dislikes a video got with the help of browser add-ons. Gahipaj135 (talk) 03:11, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, my bad. "dislike button counter" is what's no longer present. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:16, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- What do you mean by "official" and "unofficial"? There's nothing "official" in YouTube numbers anyway. "Official" is something that is declared by some official representative (employee). And those browser extensions don't "estimate" anything. They just un-hide the hidden number. That's all. The number of dislikes is factual. Gahipaj135 (talk) 03:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- I mean "official" as in "reported by YouTube" itself. As far as I'm aware, the extensions are extrapolating. See e.g. this piece in HowToGeek on one of the extensions:
"The extension works using a combination of cached data that was grabbed before YouTube disabled access to the dislike function in its API, and extrapolated user behavior. This means that the number of dislikes on any given video will not be correct, but the ratio should be somewhat accurate.
Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:25, 23 January 2023 (UTC)- Oh, you're right. I stand corrected. I didn't know it was extrapolating. Gahipaj135 (talk) 03:57, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
- I mean "official" as in "reported by YouTube" itself. As far as I'm aware, the extensions are extrapolating. See e.g. this piece in HowToGeek on one of the extensions:
- The button is not removed. It is still there. What YouTube did is that it started to hide the number of dislikes a video got. But viewers can still see how many dislikes a video got with the help of browser add-ons. Gahipaj135 (talk) 03:11, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
18 million dislikes on youtube short - how to add?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oh3CT42jwmM apparently, it has 18 million dislikes (I use an extension to see youtube dislikes) called Return Youtube Dislike, how to add? Jishiboka1 (talk) 09:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)