When YouTube removed the Dislike Button counter late last year, users and creators were up in arms. YouTube says that they did this to avoid indiscriminate attacks on smaller content creators, but many believe that the pros of this move do not outweigh the disadvantages. Hence, many people are looking for ways and tutorials on how to bring back the YouTube Dislike Button counter. Thankfully, there are ways to do this, especially if you're on some select browsers. While you can continue using the YouTube Dislike Button even without these browser extensions, you can only see the number of dislikes on a video if you have these installed. So, here is how you can bring back the magic red numbers.

How to Bring Back the Youtube Dislike Button Count

On Google Chrome

  1. Go to the Chrome Web Store
  2. Find the “Return YouTube Dislike” extension offered by returnyoutubedislike.com
  3. Click “Add to Chrome”

On Mozilla Firefox

  1. Go to the Firefox Browser Add-Ons
  2. Click Extensions
  3. Find the “Return Youtube Dislike” extension offered by Dmitry Selivanov
  4. Click “Add to Firefox”

On Opera

  1. The Opera Browser supports some Google Chrome extensions, including this one
  2. Go to the Chrome Web Store
  3. Find the “Return YouTube Dislike” offered by returnyoutubedislike.com
  4. Click “Add to Chrome”

On Microsoft Edge

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  1. The Microsoft Edge Browser supports
  2. supports some Google Chrome extensions, including this one
  3. Go to the Chrome Web Store
  4. Find the “Return YouTube Dislike” offered by returnyoutubedislike.com
  5. Click “Add to Chrome”

Once you have the extension installed, you'll only have to refresh your current YouTube tabs if any are open to confirm that it's now displaying the YouTube Dislike Button count. Interestingly, YouTube may be right on its decision in terms of discouraging dislike altogether. We've noticed that videos in general now have fewer dislikes than usual. That's probably because people don't feel like their feedback matters anymore that others cannot see their dislikes. Hence, YouTube still needs to fix this – their relationship with their viewers who have now lost the incentive to react and engage with videos.

But in any case, that's how you can bring back the YouTube Dislike Button counter on the video-sharing platform. It's as easy as one-two-three, so you won't really need to spend a lot of time or effort to accomplish this. We hope this helped!