feat(YouTube - Return YouTube Dislike): Toggle to show estimated like counts

[jpa102]

Feature description

i recently saw in the changelog v4.14.0 that it now has the ability to estimate like counts from videos with like counts hidden from the public view (ryd api now displays the "raw" likes and dislikes from extension users)

currently, it seems that it's on by default and there's no way to disable / prevent the estimation of like counts

Motivation

it would be nice to have that toggle, because users wouldn't be able to tell if the creator originally hid the like counts or not

it should be off by default, so as not to confuse users who are using the return youtube dislike patch

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[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

This would not be difficult to add, but I think showing estimated likes should be default on just as estimated dislikes is also default on.

[jpa102]

thanks for the response, i'll be glad to see that toggle

by the way, is it also possible to add an option to display "exact" like and dislike counts? (ryd extension has this, from 38k / 2k to 38,000 / 2,000 for example)

this will use the numbers from the ryd api though so the like counts will be a bit off from the google api (/youtube/v3/videos)

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

The exact number could be shown, but since the screen is so much smaller than a desktop the count would take up a lot more space.

10.3M Dislikes
would show as
10,356,153 Dislikes

And with the wider size that means the other action buttons would also be pushed off screen more (share, download, save, etc).

For videos with under 1,000 dislikes it already shows the exact number. So for mobile I don't the the screen space compromise is worth the limited usefulness.

On an unrelated note, I'm surprised more people don't use the percentage feature. A video can have a million dislikes but it's always relative to the likes. The difference between 1% dislikes to 5% dislikes is very difficult to notice when viewing like/dislike counts, but that's a 5x higher relative number of disapproving people and is significant.

[jpa102]

yeah, you're right about that

it will definitely make the like button longer

i tried to imagine if it can display the exact counts: (don't mind the different language)