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I wasn't really upset about the removal of the button but this add-on seems superfluous. What benefit does it give users to see how many other users of this extension disliked a video? I would understand if it helped shape your recommendations or home page feed but I'm at a loss here.

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Imagine a video is recommended that is for a specific how-to search; if it has a poor rating then you can be confident it's a bad match for your search.

E.g. a plumbing video for fixing a tap with a bad rating is unlikely to actually tell you how to do so.

I mean, isn't that the point of comments? I have a hard time believing a video can have high likes and not a single higher up comment countering it. At least in a realistic example like household repair or something. I also tend to skim videos for content as well to verify or find it. So maybe I'm just more diligent than most.

Video creators can freely delete comments, which makes relying on them for much sketchy.

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