Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.
Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.
The first analysis was done by Zoe of phzoe.com, then apparently completely independently reproduced and confirmed by another researcher. YouTube has openly floated the idea of not displaying dislikes, something that has been previously discussed on HN. So it seems like they are manipulating the data, and that it is this obvious, and that they're taking steps to make it less obvious now.
In the absence of actually knowing how youtube tabulates likes/dislikes, this website just substitutes a guess and calls it the "real" number. Surely there could be no other reason why these numbers might change other than a conspiracy involving the deep state colluding with the communist youtubistas over at Google.
Seriously though, who gives a fuck about youtube downvotes? This kind of psychotic obsession over internet noise isn't healthy, and if you are spending a lot of time on this kind of stuff you should seek help.
This site is not "substituting a guess". It is using an official API to get likes and dislikes at regular intervals. If YouTube has some wonderful reason for suddenly deleting hundreds or thousands of dislike clicked in by authenticated users, they should say what it is. Otherwise it looks like an attempt to deceive people. YouTube is displaying misleading lies; this site is displaying something much closer to the truth.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 18.9 ms ] threadOf course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.
Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.
Seriously though, who gives a fuck about youtube downvotes? This kind of psychotic obsession over internet noise isn't healthy, and if you are spending a lot of time on this kind of stuff you should seek help.