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It also restored the dislike button and added support for sponsorblock (which can automatically skip sponsor segments, as well as intros, outros, "like and subscribe" reminders, non-music sections of music videos, and other fluff.)

The name comes from it being an "advanced" YouTube app, only without any "ad"s ;)

Oh, and you could disable the comments section!

All-in-all, it just made YouTube a much better experience.

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>It also restored the dislike button

As a useless button to click? I would assume youtube removed the actual functionality in the backend so what's the point of the button?

I think it used an alternate backend, possibly https://returnyoutubedislike.com/

Yes, it is that one.

It uses an alternative backend where videos pre-removal had their dislike counters archived, and anything post-removal uses dislike data from users with the extension to crowdsource a likely dislike counter.

(in theory, if 5% of viewers of a video are people that have the extension, and only 10% of those viewers hit the dislike button, chances are that's a good sample size to assume that this video should have a 10% dislike ratio, but in practice it's probably a bit more complicated/weighted)

YouTube still has a dislike button. They just don't show you the number of dislikes anymore.

Oh wow, I just assumed it was made by a guy called Vance.

Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration /s

I know I would find a comment like this! Love you guys

sometimes the flowers arrange themselves, Jim.

I think my positive perception of self named software dates back to Irfanview.

I've been using it since 1998, never felt the need to change to anything else.

ACDSee and XnView were also big players at the time. I also faintly remember one with a panda in its logo, but can't tell what it was...

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