ForrestKnight
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2 years ago There's actually ways around this. My current code will work just fine as I'm the owner of the data, so I can continue to pull my own dislike data and display it, but I can't pull anyone else's. That's their main issue. There's another way around it that I'm working on implementing that'll work for all creators, but requires a bit more work.
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
The comments in their README detail why you shouldn't put any more effort into this; it's practice, it's something to show your viewers, but Youtube's working against you man. I was about to write a JS userscript which would revert the old behavior of the dislike button in-browser, and comment a link to it in your video, but I was lucky to find that project before I got too deep.
While reading your code, and reflecting on the hate-bombing that Youtube is trying to combat for good reason, I came up with an idea. Why not force users to watch like 5-10 videos from a specific channel all the way through, before being allowed to create a review of that channel or piece of content? This would probably require an overhaul of youtube's existing rating infrastructure to something like the five star system, but my thought is that it could help humanize targets of hate-bombing, while also ensuring that people are actually exposed to content before leaving bogus ratings.
IDK, lmk what you think. I'm not a YT creator or anything so I have literally no way to suggest this idea @youtube for consideration. Good review systems serve a utility to viewers, what Youtube is doing now isn't doing anything to really help the problem at hand.