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the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those are only using the ratio of likes and disliles of the users using those extensions.

So it can bias in a way that, say (this is an example, idk if this is true), the users of the extension are more "anti-windows" than the general population. So a video on the announcement of a new Windows release, would show as having more dislikes since the ratio of people who dislike Windows is higher.

(That's how I understand the extension anyway, correct me if I'm wrong)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Pretty much spot on. I believe they also saved the dislike counts on lots of videos from before the dislike removal, so it's only new dislikes not reflected accurately

Also, you can help fix the bias! The more people using the extension and disliking things they for like, the more accurate it'll become

(There were also plans for some kind of API that would link to YouTube accounts to allow content creators to feed the true dislike counts into it constantly, but I believe they were abandoned due to privacy and safety concerns as it required a lot of permissions and essentially root level access into your account to function)