rounded (new) ui overwrites the dislike count on shorts

[jpa102]

Have you tried to find similar issues (open or recently closed)?

• Yes, this issue is not a duplicate

Browser

Supermium (chromium fork)

Browser Version

Supermium 132.0.6834.224

Extension or Userscript?

Extension

Extension/Userscript Version

v3.0.0.18

Video link where you see the problem

any short

What happened?

i'm aware of the duplicate issues as seen here:

• Short support #1149
• Not working for shorts #1052
• Opening comments in shorts removes dislike counter #941

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on shorts page, the dislike count gets rendered very briefly before it gets overwritten by the default dislike text as the page loads. this happens on the rounded (new) ui variant and not in the "old ui" variant for some reason (in which the extension has "legacy support" for it)

How to reproduce/recreate?

go to any https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ link, then try to view the dislike count

here's a video clip (rounded ui and old (2022+ish) ui) + a workaround

dislike_counts_shorts-vp9_vid-opus_audio.mp4

like others say:

• opening the comment section makes the dislike count disappear
• pressing the dislike button makes it appear again

from my observation, just right clicking the dislike button triggers the placement of the dislike counts, until those 2 mentioned are performed (onclick event?)

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notes: in the video, i had to use a userscript to make the shorts buttons look old (demonstration). by doing that, the extension places and renders the dislike count with no problems

it seems the extension has compatibility with those particular elements? while the ones from the rounded ui gets overwritten

the workaround in question:

yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_button_rework_with_live = false

doing this will transform the shorts action buttons to the "old style" in which the extension correctly renders the dislike count

there's probably something funky going on in the rounded (new) ui this time, as in previous months and in late 2024, this issue did not happen (speaking from experience)

Will you be available for follow-up questions to help developers diagnose & fix the issue?

Yes

[jpa102]

okay, it seems the extension and the userscript version doesn't display the dislike counts at all

using the extension version: (version 3.0.0.18 on google chrome 109.0.5414.120 on windows vista)

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using the userscript version on the other hand: [version 3.1.5, i forked mine to be 3.1.7]

it seems it's whining something about the tag names inside the getDislikeButton() function

because if i go to a different browser profile (guest in this case) with the userscript version, it displays it just fine (that is, if i open up the comment section or something, the dislike counts disappear)

my theory: it has something to do with youtube's experiments and they have changed something in the shorts page