Youtube made changes that make Invidious pretty much unfunctional, videos won’t load in my browser for me :(
What do you need dislikes on YT for? You can’t tell a shitty video by it’s shitty title and shitty thumbnail?
A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.
I would 1000% add temporary containers to that list. Wish I could get it on Android too!
I read, “With Butter”
Gotta finish my coffee
the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it’s a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it’s based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.
it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it’s just a misanthropic echo chamber.
What an awful mischaracterisation. While the dislike feature may appeal to misanthropes, it also appeals to the much larger pool of people that are intelligent enough/respectful of their own time to understand the value of the feature in helping to avoid poor quality and misleading content.
It really bears out in the results. For those who recall what old ratios looked like, for sufficiently popular videos, they still hold true with this plugin.
i just think dearrow seems like the better choice for that purpose.
How so? Like/dislike ratios are a very quick and effective means of identifying problematic content. Clickbait titles and thumbnails are another issue - they aren’t a reasonable indicator of the quality of the content. It’s an emerging trend in an oversaturated environment in which even creators of high quality content feel the need to partake.
but like… the like/dislike buttons are there for the algorithm. they’re there to tweak your recommendations. always were. the problem with having the ratio visible is that people will brigade, and that “mainstreams” your recommendations, making them less useful. that’s why youtube removed the visible ratios. putting them back, and just for people with the plugin, means your recommendations will start to align only with the people who have the plugin. it literally becomes an echo chamber.
Like I said, many of us use like/dislike ratios to gain insight into quality of content; whether or not that was the intended use of the feature is really irrelevant.
You’re massively overstating the incidence of brigading. A tiny fraction of videos have experienced this. The idea that brigading is significantly affecting user recommendations and even causing them to align is hyperbolic nonsense.
well that’s good then. personally my experience with the dislike bar is mostly from siIvagunner, where videos with well-used tracks got shitloads of dislikes, more than the views of videos without them. this despite the quality of work put into them. i’m glad to be rid of that.
I have no experience with that channel. What makes you think it is being brigaded? Seems like a very unusual target. Given that it’s well-used tracks that appear to be affected, it seems to me that it may just be attracting a greater breadth of viewers - who are generally less familiar with the content and may have different expectations (and would be just as likely to downvote whether visible or not.)
It’s better than nothing. Also I’d probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don’t.
Is it? personally, when i think of “people who want to see the dislike bar” my mind equates that to “people who want to dislike”, and that’s not a group of people i want to interact with.
To me it wrings more of "people who want to know before they waste 20 minutes whether this video is clickbait, just actually false, rightwing conspiracy theories, or has some massive editing flaw that makes the video pointless.
For that, I prefer DeArrow. Gets you community sourced, informative titles for videos (and removes clickbait thumbnails as well)
This is why I use it, also the more people who use it the more accurate it is
It’s honestly relatively representative afaik
Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.
how can we even know that though? there’s no stats anymore.
also, if peertube et al got bigger, surely sponsorblock would be useful there as well? if creators would use those services because people were on them, sponsors would contact those creators because they got the views.
It subjectively feels right, and instances where creators leaked the numbers the RTYTD stats matched pretty closely.
Until peertube grows to that size, it’s still a long time. Then it would be useful.
I just installed consentomatic right now and I didn’t know it existed thank you
Is the one in the bottom left actually called “No Need YT Ads”? Cause I can’t find that one
It must be Invidious alternative frontend for youtube
Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.
Why?
People at the top of Mozilla Org making crappy decisions.
Just installed Consent-o-matic and Unpaywalled. Thanks!
Not sure that its a must have and possibly uBO could handle it if I could be bothered to check but I like LocalCDN too.
Librewolf instead of firefox
Replace Firefox with brave and you’re set
Are you talking about the browser that added its own referral codes in cryptocurrency sites?
(Yeah, maybe I’m a bit vindictive…)
Prepare for downvotes.
People can hate, but the shield is more convenient than uBlock. I know because I had uBlock origin and noscript back I’m the day. Too bad I tend to separate the app from its creator because it’s beneficial for me.
the shield is more convenient than uBlock
Agreed.
Being a chromium based browser, they’re fixing to loose access to the same features that’s killing Ublock. So in the near future, the Brave CEO is still going to be a cunt, but your ad-blocking is going to be forever inferior.
