the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it’s a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it’s based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.
it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it’s just a misanthropic echo chamber.
Is it? personally, when i think of “people who want to see the dislike bar” my mind equates that to “people who want to dislike”, and that’s not a group of people i want to interact with.
To me it wrings more of "people who want to know before they waste 20 minutes whether this video is clickbait, just actually false, rightwing conspiracy theories, or has some massive editing flaw that makes the video pointless.
Tbh the removal of clickbait thumbnails made YouTube less enjoyable for me. I don’t really watch those over the top clickbait youtubers anyway, so I’ve found that this isn’t too big of a deal.
how can we even know that though? there’s no stats anymore.
also, if peertube et al got bigger, surely sponsorblock would be useful there as well? if creators would use those services because people were on them, sponsors would contact those creators because they got the views.
the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it’s a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it’s based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.
it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it’s just a misanthropic echo chamber.
It’s better than nothing. Also I’d probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don’t.
Is it? personally, when i think of “people who want to see the dislike bar” my mind equates that to “people who want to dislike”, and that’s not a group of people i want to interact with.
To me it wrings more of "people who want to know before they waste 20 minutes whether this video is clickbait, just actually false, rightwing conspiracy theories, or has some massive editing flaw that makes the video pointless.
For that, I prefer DeArrow. Gets you community sourced, informative titles for videos (and removes clickbait thumbnails as well)
Tbh the removal of clickbait thumbnails made YouTube less enjoyable for me. I don’t really watch those over the top clickbait youtubers anyway, so I’ve found that this isn’t too big of a deal.
You can turn individual features off, or whitelist YouTubers you like
This is why I use it, also the more people who use it the more accurate it is
It’s honestly relatively representative afaik
Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.
how can we even know that though? there’s no stats anymore.
also, if peertube et al got bigger, surely sponsorblock would be useful there as well? if creators would use those services because people were on them, sponsors would contact those creators because they got the views.
It subjectively feels right, and instances where creators leaked the numbers the RTYTD stats matched pretty closely.
Until peertube grows to that size, it’s still a long time. Then it would be useful.