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The video you linked showed it being relatively accurate though.


It did not. In one case it had the number of dislikes correct, but the other cases showed it out by up to 50% - and these were videos that had dislikes registered before youtube disappeared them.


Out of examples, only one was majorly off and these were from a channel with a very limited number of like / dislikes. In other examples the share of likes / dislikes was roughly not too much off.


Being off by up to 50% is plenty of signal.


The video linked is also a small YouTuber with not many views on their videos. Looking at the comparisons it actually gave a pretty close count. Sure it's not exact, but considering it's a small niche YouTuber it seems to be giving a fairly decent approximation. On even larger YouTube channels it's likely going to give you an even better sample of whether people like or dislike the video.




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