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YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.

Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that's OK, as it's open source and you can see how it's calculated on their github.

It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.

It also archived a lot of video's dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.

As a user of the extension who knows how it works (no thanks to yourself), take it with whatever sized grain of salt you feel comfortable with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's "real" as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it's just an estimate.