Return Youtube Dislike for Firefox

Google’s move on YouTube’s dislike counter feature, or more precisely, the lack of the actual dislike count that followed, was a quite radical decision, especially considering the company’s overall transparent demeanor when it comes to all things media-related. Nevertheless, in an attempt to restore “balance to the Force”, Return Youtube Dislike for Firefox came to fruition. Just as its Chrome counterpart, it will simply and effectively restore the dislike counter, for those who prefer to venture out on YouTube, using Firefox.

We always enjoy simple designs, and this extension basically oozes simplicity, as from deployment to actual usage, the transition is almost instantaneous. But more importantly, the extension does what it’s supposed to do, and it does it well.

Basically, after installing it, users can directly proceed to refresh their favorite YT videos’ pages, and the dislike counter will automatically re-appear, just like that. Simple and efficient, without any need for additional settings, configuration, or other steps.

As stated on the developer’s website, the data extraction algorithm for the dislikes is based on multiple sources, and according to the evolution of the so-called “dislike crisis”, it will be adapted in order to maintain continuity.

At the moment, the data pool for the dislike counter extraction is represented by the GoogleAPI and the scraped data. All the extracted information is stored in the developer’s database, in order to ensure availability in case Google will terminate the API.

If you were relying on metrics such as user dislikes for videos, and now wish to have the YouTube dislike counter back in your Firefox browser, this nifty add-on can fix things for you, in just a few seconds.