Hey everyone, Front here!
 If you don't know me, I'm 
one of the contributors on the
Return Youtube Dislike extension. 
I'm here to set straight some of 
the common misunderstandings about the extension.
First off, let's actually clarify how it works.
As you may know, there was a public youtube API  
that was available up until December 13, 2021
that let us get the dislike count as well as  
other data like views and likes, directly from 
youtube. They have discontinued the dislike api  
and we now have to get the dislike data ourselves.
To generate our dislike data we take the number  
of dislikes from our extension users. Divide that 
by the number of likes from our extension users  
and then multiply that by the public like 
count.
This data is also archived by us in case this feature is to be removed.
Because of the way that we calculate dislikes, 
the more extension users that we have, the 
more accurate it is to the actual dislike count.
oh yeah,
one last thing 
if you're having issues with the extension:
you should follow our troubleshooting steps on 
our site.
If you're still having issues, you can always check the "#api-status" channel in our Discord to make sure that we aren't having server issues.