Pretty much spot on. I believe they also saved the dislike counts on lots of videos from before the dislike removal, so it’s only new dislikes not reflected accurately

Also, you can help fix the bias! The more people using the extension and disliking things they for like, the more accurate it’ll become

(There were also plans for some kind of API that would link to YouTube accounts to allow content creators to feed the true dislike counts into it constantly, but I believe they were abandoned due to privacy and safety concerns as it required a lot of permissions and essentially root level access into your account to function)

ReturnYouTubeDislike and DeArrow/SponsorBlock are your best friends. Even available in ReVanced for Android

Seriously. In Australia, you have to “activate” your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver’s license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they’ve never done that to me, as long as it’s prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

I’ve never seen one in Australia. We don’t really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I’ve never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you’d go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I’ve seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it’s either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

Not to sound like I’m claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care, but Reddit has shown me that they don’t give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant

What’s a VPM?

It’s not just you, it’s phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don’t log network reqs so I don’t know exacts, but it’s using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it’s doing something.

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well

But going into my app list and showing system does show it