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minus-squarevodka@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoFor new videos (ones they don’t have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows. Surely that doesn’t skew the data in any way.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI wonder if it would be trivial to hack one…
For new videos (ones they don’t have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn’t skew the data in any way.
I wonder if it would be trivial to hack one…