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# Return YouTube Dislike

<p align="center">
    <b>Return YouTube Dislike is an open-source extension that returns the YouTube dislike count.</b><br>
    Available for Chrome and Firefox as a Web Extension.<br>
    Also available for other browsers as JS Userscript.<br><br>
    <img width="400px" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18729296/141743755-2be73297-250e-4cd1-ac93-8978c5a39d10.png"/>
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## The Story

On November 10th, 2021, Google [announced](https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/) that the YouTube dislike count would be removed.  
  
Additionally, the `dislike` field in the YouTube API will be [removed](https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts) on December 13th, 2021, removing any ability to judge the quality of content before watching.

## What it Does

This plugin will re-enable the visibility of the dislike count, fetching the total number of dislikes via our API, which in turn relies upon YouTube's [Data API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3).

With the removal of dislike stats from the YouTube API, our backend will switch to using a combination of scraped dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data
and estimates based on view\like ratios.

## Why it Matters

You can learn more at our website at: [returnyoutubedislike.com](https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/)