Open YouTube Dislikes is a truly open source browser extension created to restore YouTube dislike functionality to all videos.
The extension relies on three sources to provide dislike counts:
- The first source is a >1.2B video dataset made available by the archive.org team YouTube Dislikes (❤️).
- The second source is the dataset crowdsourced by users of this extension.
- The third source is a machine learning model trained on the above data. The model acts as a fallback in case a video is not already known.
The extension is powered by a Go backend which can be found here dkgv/open-youtube-dislikes-backend.