Power to the people! Yes, it sounds cheesy but this extension does it. Screw YouTube removing the dislike count, this gives us a replacement for it.

Update: The new permissions request in Sept 2026 has some terrible wording. This extension accesses the same websites as it did before - youtube.com and returnyoutubedislikeapi.com (see under "Permissions and data"). I was concerned by the "new permissions," since seemingly everything nowadays is grabbing as much of your data as possible. But since the extension runs on the same sites, it's open source, and the wording of these permissions is controlled by the platform (Firefox in this case) *not* the developer, I'll keep it.

Works perfectly in the latest Firefox 111.0.1
compatible with adblockers like Qwant Vipravacy, Ghostery and Privacy Badger. It still shows while these adblockers are working.

Now I can see YouTube dislikes again. Perfect.

In a world where the thumbs down button is the worst thing that could possibly exist ever in human history......... along comes Dmitry to have "influencers" crying all over again.

Thank you for bringing this back, I hope to provide open source code as useful as this one day.

Being able to see like/dislike ratio helps immensely with content selection. How tf did youtube think removing it was the right idea in the first place?

Very useful