Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that the “Return Youtube Dislike” extension wasn’t working, as in, I wasn’t seeing any dislikes. Is Youtube the cause of this? or this is just some random bug?

  • SkidFace@lemmy.world
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    YouTube made some minor UI changes, which caused the current version of Return YouTube Dislike in the Mozilla Addons Store to not work. A fix has been submitted for review to Firefox and other browser stores, but that takes time and Mozilla has get to accept the new version. Adding the current version manually from their GitHub page does work just fine, if you don’t feel like waiting.

    https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/issues/944

  • Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world
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    I wish videos were hosted on different websites like the old days. Your friends would suggest a website to you to see a funny video like dumb.com and homestar runner. YouTube came along and now they have a monopoly on 99% of full length videos. Make your voice heard and stop using YouTube- host your own videos and keep the spirit of the old web alive

    • wahming@monyet.cc
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      Host your own videos where? The average user isn’t likely to start hosting their own file server

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        There’s lots of free resources on the internet for learning how to do that. I just wish people would realize that the more you learn about technology, the more you can manipulate the world around you for the better, especially in this decade.

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          You’re not wrong, but realistically, there’s no chance of it happening.

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          Since you sound like you’re familiar with the topic, what web-based software do you recommend for hosting videos on a VPS?

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            I’m definitely more of a hardware guy, but at least I’m old enough to remember the internet before corporations took it over

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              Wait, so… you’re advocating for the average user to self-host, but it turns out you don’t even do it yourself?

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                No? I’m not a networking guy, I mainly deal with hardware. I do remember when the internet was decentralized and all the innovative content was independent of things like social media. Just because I don’t know how to set up my own video server off the top of my head doesn’t mean I don’t support it.

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                  The point being, if you’re an IT guy who supports the idea and yet can’t find the motivation to do it, do you honestly think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of anybody else doing it?

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      I’ve been thinking about getting a Nebula subscription for awhile now. Most of the channels I subscribe to are on there so I’d feel good paying to support them. And Practical Engineering’s new (now finished) series was so good, I want to see more stuff like that instead of hoping the YouTube algorithm suggests something worth watching

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    It’s a hack - unsanctioned third party extensions are inherently pretty hackish and just work however they can. They frequently depend on things that can change in unpredictable ways, so breaking with updates is just business as usual.

    Assuming the project is actively maintained, there should be a fix available at some point.

    Edit: this is assuming they have their own infrastructure, I have no idea if that’s true. If things were really relying on hidden but “deprecated” API stuff, like some people ITT say, you could be SoL - they can just remove that at their leisure and it’s odd they haven’t.

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      They do have their own infrastructure, the old api was 100% killed a long time ago. Before that happened they scraped and archived as many youtube videos as possible (through a distributed computing effort) now they use a combination of historical data and likes vs views to give a best estimation of the true dislike amount. It has been tested to be close but of course not exact.

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      It should use its own API tho. YT is not giving that data for a year as I remember.

      • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s more likely an issue with the placement of the stats rather than the data behind it. YouTube probably updated the UI in a way that Return Dislikes is not compatible with.

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    Use their TamperMonkey add-on, that seems to still work. I uninstalled the extension before enabling the TamperMonkey userscript. Firefox here.

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    I still see the dislikes on Revanced and Libretube. Might just be a UI change on desktop.

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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    Huh…weird. I can still see the dislike button itself, but there is no longer a number next to it. (Firefox desktop browser here, up to date)

    • atomWood@lemm.ee
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      That means it’s no longer working. YouTube never removed the dislike button, just the dislike counter.

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        That’s wrong. Youtube dislike has its own database, and infers the bumber of dislikes based on the number of dislike it got and its userbase.

        The plug-in stopped working because youtube changed its layout. It’s coming back.

  • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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    Displaying of things is easy to change/fix depending on what the extension is written in. It still works for me though on desktop.

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    What I heard is for a good while YouTube still had the numbers on the backend of the website, just hidden, and the extension allowed you to continue seeing it, and continue disliking videos.

    However they were planning on eventually removing the functionality althoghther instead of it just being invisible to users.

    So assuming that’s what’s happened, then I’m pretty sure it’s gone permanently now.

    • Supervivens@lemmy.world
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      No, return dislike used their own algorithm based off whether users of return disliked it and then compared that to the total views of the video to give a rough idea of the total number. YouTube have them jack shit

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    Why the fuck are there people still using YouTube? They rip off content creators and treat their user base like shit- and yet, everyone still flocks to use their services.

    In a more intelligent world- YouTube wouldn’t even exist anymore.

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      Because it’s entrenched, and any other platform that can provide the reasons YouTube got popular (PeerTube cannot) would run into the same issues eventually. Most of the best YouTube content nowadays is by people who rely on it as at least a secondary income, so it provides no real benefit for creators to post content elsewhere.

      • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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        People could just…. not go to YouTube. There’s little there that’s necessary to watch. What’s wrong here is that people put their indulgences ahead of their hypocrisy.

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          YouTube is a monopoly and there are so many talented content creators on there, even for niche interests. What are you talking about? And what the fuck does “necessary to watch” mean? I want to watch what’s fun and interests me and that’s all on YouTube.

          • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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            And if you’re one of the millions of people that constantly bitch about YouTube’s standards and practices, you’re a hypocrite along with the rest of them. If not, then I’m not talking about you.