Privacy concern

[brace110]

Browser

Brave

Browser Version

Latest

Extension or Userscript?

Extension

Extension/Userscript Version

Latest

Video link where you see the problem

Every

What happened?

How can we be sure our viewing habbits are not being tracked if every video I watch is being sent to your domain:

fetch(
    `https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/votes?videoId=${getVideoId()}`
  ).then((response) => {
    response.json().then((json) => {

Can we solve this question to market/make this plugin even more popular and trusted by everyone?

[Anarios]

You can't. And there is no way to solve it either (well, giving everyone admin rights to all infrastructure would solve it).

[aryavsaigal]

maybe we can add an advanced option so it only fetches dislikes for the videos you want (by the click of a button)
you wouldnt need to see dislikes of a creator you trust a lot and entertainment videos.

if people are concerned they can just enable this and check dislikes for videos they dont trust, which should be pretty less compared to all the videos you watch.

[Anarios]

maybe we can add an advanced option so it only fetches dislikes for the videos you want (by the click of a button) you wouldnt need to see dislikes of a creator you trust a lot and entertainment videos.

if people are concerned they can just enable this and check dislikes for videos they dont trust, which should be pretty less compared to all the videos you watch.

that would be one way to solve it. But then again - it would still expose all videos that you requested (and people would request most of their videos)

[Anarios]

You can also block it in firewall, and only unblock when you want to see dislikes .

[Anarios]

or disable it, and only enable when you need it. you get the idea.

[aryavsaigal]

that would be one way to solve it. But then again - it would still expose all videos that you requested (and people would request most of their videos)

It's harder to be sure of someones viewing habits by less videos fetched

[Anarios]

that would be one way to solve it. But then again - it would still expose all videos that you requested (and people would request most of their videos)

It's harder to be sure of someones viewing habits by less videos fetched

yep, but imagine flipping the switch every time you want to see dislikes

[aryavsaigal]

that would be one way to solve it. But then again - it would still expose all videos that you requested (and people would request most of their videos)

It's harder to be sure of someones viewing habits by less videos fetched

yep, but imagine flipping the switch every time you want to see dislikes

it will probably be a button on the youtube page itself, shouldnt be much of an inconvenience to those using this

[Aerophus]

Should have kept this open instead of immediately closing it, atleast so we can have an open discussion about possible implementations of what I think its a pretty good idea.

[Anarios]

It was never opensource.

[zannini]

It was never opensource.

Ah. I'm sure the community will be very happy to use a tool that is not creepy. Google is already creepy we shouldn't make the thing creepier.

Don't worry we will solve this problem over Christmas break. Be it with this software or another 😉

[Anarios]

So, making a request to a server is creepy now? You shouldn't be using github then either.

Be it with this software or another 😉

Good luck.