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YouTube no longer allows you to run across dislikes on videos, which tin be important information in determining whether or not a video is trustworthy or authentic. Though it comes with some caveats, you can restore dislikes with a browser extension.

Restore YouTube Dislikes With a Browser Extension

You can restore dislikes on YouTube in just a few clicks with a browser extension imaginatively called Return YouTube Dislike. Currently, the extension can be installed on Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Dauntless as a native application.

Firefox and Chrome utilize their own native versions of the app, while the other listed browsers are all uniform with the Chrome version. Some browsers like Edge may require that you lot allow extensions from other stores before you lot can do this.

Restore YouTube dislikes with the Return YouTube Dislikes extension

If yous use another browser then all hope is not lost. There'southward a userscript bachelor for the Tampermonkey add-on, which should allow the extension to work in the desktop version of Safari. You can too install an iOS tweak for jailbroken devices if you happen to utilise one of those.

In one case you've installed the extension on your browser of selection, simply head to a YouTube video to meet the like-to-dislike ratio.

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Non a Completely Authentic Tally of Dislikes

The extension works using a combination of cached data that was grabbed earlier 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.

Viewing a YouTube video's like to dislike ratio

Everyone who uses the extension contributes data to help determine the ratio, which means that the extension author is gathering data nigh the videos y'all sentry. Only content creators can see the "true" number of likes and dislikes their videos receive, and at that place are plans to allow creators to share this information with the extension in the future.

How authentic much of this data remains over the long term depends on how many people use and contribute their data. Tech YouTube channel LinusTechTips compared its own counts with counts supplied by the extension and establish that they were mostly authentic.

This is about equally good as can be hoped for when extrapolating values based on beliefs and historic data. It might help y'all avoid a scam or inaccurate how-to, which is one of the main concerns voiced by those who opposed YouTube'south move to disable the ratio in the first place.

Gauging Video Quality on YouTube

YouTube disabled like-to-dislike ratios in response to brigading and mass dislike campaigns leveled at some creators not for the quality of the content only due to targeted attacks. While this is a valid business organization, the motion also knocked out i of the but metrics for gauging a video'south worth on the platform.

YouTube now recommends that viewers resort to the comments instead. This is the platform that gave nascency to the "never read the comments" meme, and so many creators now disable comments to combat spam and hate already.

It looks like YouTube will exist leaning heavily on users reporting comments in the future if this is going to work out.