How to get back the Dislike counter on YouTube?

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YouTube stripped the Dislike button in an endeavor to protect its creators from harassment and reduce dislike attacks. It is believed; its creators were often unfairly targeted past efforts to increase the number of dislikes. Though true, the Dislike count is of great help in determining the quality of video i.due east., if information technology's worth recommending or not. Well, a uncomplicated trick can help you get the Dislike counter back on YouTube.

How to get back the Dislike counter on YouTube?

It'due south still possible to get back the Dislike counter on YouTube but at that place's ane rider to the bargain – Y'all can meet exact dislike counts, along with other metrics only the number of dislikes for a video won't be shared publicly. So, depending on your preferences, yous tin can enable or disable the Dislike counter on YouTube.

Download and install the Return YouTube Dislike extension for your browser.
Run the extension.
The extension, when active, changes the YouTube site to where it shows a dislike count.
Only hover over the similar/dislike section to keep the count.
If y'all don't similar information technology disable or remove the extension.

Although, you cannot share the Dislike counts publicly, It's still a step in the right management as the creators tin make up one's mind how their content is performing and even how to improve information technology.

Return YouTube Dislike extension brings back the ability to see dislikes on YouTube videos. The good part is it is compatible with Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Brave.

Visit this page to download the extension for browsers similar Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera and others.

Add the extension to your browser and actuate it. The extension volition automatically restore the YouTube Dislike count to your video watching feel.

Return YouTube Dislike collects the video ID of the video you lot are watching and fetches the dislike (and other fields like views, likes etc) using returnyoutubedislike.com API. If it'southward the first time the video was fetched by returnyoutubedislike.com API, the extension volition use the YouTube API to become the data. Information technology will then store the collected data in the database for caching (buried for around 2-3 days) and archiving purposes and return it to you lot.

Please note – This is an ALPHA version of the extension so, information technology may be tedious to run and you tin run across bugs frequently. Plus, the video dislikes are buried and then not updated very frequently. It simply updates once every ii–3 days.

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Why is the Dislike button on YouTube removed?

In its findings, the video-sharing site YouTube found many modest creators, besides as those merely getting started, were ofttimes unfairly targeted by efforts to increase the number of dislikes. So, to lessen the number of such unfortunate instances, YouTube had the Dislike counter removed.

Tin can YouTuber come across who disliked?

Like and dislikes on YouTube are bearding. And then, there's no such method to find who disliked your video. All the same, if y'all're a Youtuber you can determine the ratings (i.e., the number of likes/dislikes).

A post-graduate in Biotechnology, Hemant switched gears to writing most Microsoft technologies and has been a contributor to TheWindowsClub since then. When he is not working, you can ordinarily find him out traveling to different places or indulging himself in binge-watching.