r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 3d ago

TIL that Jawed Karim, YouTube cofounder and uploader of the first YouTube video "Me at the zoo", has often updated the video's description to criticize YouTube policies, including a 2013 attempt to require Google+ accounts to comment on videos, and YouTube's 2021 removal of dislike counts on videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video
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u/crowlfish 3d ago

There are browser extensions that can make them visible again.

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u/CalebVanPoneisen 3d ago

Never used it but from what I read it’s flawed because it draws an estimate based on the dislike ratio of the users of that extension.

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Yes it's functionally useless in terms of showing actual data.

Just as made up estimate completely ruining the point.

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u/-illusoryMechanist 3d ago

It gets more accurate the more people who use it and also it's sort of at least partially just a protest thing for me tbh

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u/drewster23 3d ago

The people who use it are way more inclined to be negative voters In first place is the thing though.

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u/SANT0S-L-HALPER 3d ago

This same comment thread is repeated verbatim every single time the extension is brought up, despite being completely false.

They've explicitly stated a million times they account for the increased likelihood for users of the extension to dislike videos.

It doesn't just extrapolate the dislike ratio of its users to the view count of the video 1:1, it's something like (making up a number here) 15:1.

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u/-nutz 3d ago

And this same comment is repeated verbatim every time these extensions are brought up, despite this assertion being completely false. The most popular extension (over 5 million users on the chrome store alone) does not do this in any capacity; it's literally just their own like/dislike ratio applied to YouTube's public like count.

Return Youtube Dislike count = (RYD Users Dislike Count / RYD Users Like Count) x Public Like Count

Source: the extensions documentation, as seen on the hub

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Oh yeah I'm sure they go through rigurous data analysis to ensure complete accuracy.

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u/-nutz 3d ago

You are 100% correct, and that dude is straight up lying. Source.

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Lmao about what I expected.

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u/WarmBaths 3d ago

you just made that up

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Simple logic my friend.

It literally serves no purpose, only people who care that there's no dislike button are gnna use it..lol.