Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that the “Return Youtube Dislike” extension wasn’t working, as in, I wasn’t seeing any dislikes. Is Youtube the cause of this? or this is just some random bug?

  • amio@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s a hack - unsanctioned third party extensions are inherently pretty hackish and just work however they can. They frequently depend on things that can change in unpredictable ways, so breaking with updates is just business as usual.

    Assuming the project is actively maintained, there should be a fix available at some point.

    Edit: this is assuming they have their own infrastructure, I have no idea if that’s true. If things were really relying on hidden but “deprecated” API stuff, like some people ITT say, you could be SoL - they can just remove that at their leisure and it’s odd they haven’t.

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      1 year ago

      They do have their own infrastructure, the old api was 100% killed a long time ago. Before that happened they scraped and archived as many youtube videos as possible (through a distributed computing effort) now they use a combination of historical data and likes vs views to give a best estimation of the true dislike amount. It has been tested to be close but of course not exact.