Compare Chrome extensions: YouTube True Ratings vs Youtube like-dislike ratio

Stats YouTube True Ratings YouTube True Ratings Youtube like-dislike ratio Youtube like-dislike ratio
User count 169 5,712+
Average rating 2.60 2.48
Rating count 10 48
Last updated 2012-11-18 2021-05-24
Size 81.86K 7.24K
Version 2.0 2.0
Short description
Surfaces video ratings (likes and dislikes) for related and featured videos. It shows a whole number ratio of likes over dislikes of a youtube video
Full summary

We all browse YouTube on a fairly if not extremely regular basis. We sometimes wonder into the deep dark parts of YouTube and often click on a thumbnail thinking it's a video that's truly "Related", only to find it has about 5,000 dislikes, and is some awful home-made video.

YouTube True Ratings, will surface the green and red like / dislike graphic - as you will find underneath the videos. Additionally, on mouse over, it will show you the total amount of likes and dislikes a video has, using live data.

Enjoy, and please report bugs - It's fairly new and am happy to update!

Known Limitations:

  1. Keep in mind that the YouTube API has some quota restrictions, therefore after excessive usage, the ratings may start to not show. They definitely do come back though!

  2. I have not added these to the primary search results, because YouTube already does this (next to view count it will have a percentage in green or red)

Real likability of a YouTube video is defined mostly by how less number of people actually disliked it.

YouTube also has a 'Sentiment Bar' to show the ratio. But most of the time it looks like a thin underline bar below Like-Dislike buttons. The reason being the fact that this ratio is almost always greater than 10. And a 100/1 ratio video doesn't stand out from a crowd of tonnes of average 10/1 videos, because the bar looks almost same for all of them.

This extension shows a ratio of 'Number of likes' over 'Number of dislikes' of the video in a neat intuitive design.


VERSION 2.0 - Fixes the issue where the ratio was not showing at all for YouTube in languages other than English.


DISCLAIMER:

  1. This extension DOES NOT refreshes the ratio when you like or dislike a video and want to see the updated value. This is because the data (from YouTube page) on which this extension relies doesn't get updated immediately by YouTube when you like or dislike a video. You have to refresh the page to see the updated ratio.
  2. This extension DOES NOT work in live streaming video.