On November 10, YouTube refused to show the counter of dislikes – users will not see the number of negative marks under the video, they will be displayed only to the authors of the videos. The innovation caused outrage among users, they even massively uploaded videos about hiding the counter of dislikes. Now Dmitry Selivanov with the nickname Anarios has published on GitHub the source code of his Return YouTube Dislike extension, which returns a counter of dislikes on YouTube.
The add-on is available for Chrome and Firefox, as well as for other browsers, but already in the form of a JavaScript script. You will have to install it manually in Chrome (it is unlikely that Google moderation would have let it go to the extension store), but in the case of Firefox, it is available in the directory.
Now the extension works on the basis of the YouTube API, but on December 13, 2021, the corresponding field will disappear from it. Then the browser add-on will begin to use “a combination of dislikes statistics extrapolated from user data for the extension and ratings based on the ratio of views and likes.” Simply put, starting from mid-December, the extension will show the approximate number of dislikes.
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