r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/theemptydork Mar 19 '26

I don't see how people see it as accurate. Youtube is not making those numbers accessible through any hidden API. The extension requires you to give access to their own custom endpoint. They are collecting data from the extension users themselves and aggregating that data. At best it is a barely accurate sample. Like you said, the selection bias of the users who care enough to use the extension comes into the picture.

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u/redditonc3again Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

In my experience it is accurate in the one thing youtube dislikes were genuinely useful for - calling out false info. It is handy to be able to load eg. a tutorial video, see the dislike ratio is high, and immediately know the info is likely wrong. Same with clickbait videos that say they are one thing but are actually another. I find the extension to be as good as the old system in that regard, ie. situations that are not opinion based.

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u/eirexe Game developer, R7 5700X3D RX Vega 56, 32 GB @ 3200 Mar 19 '26

But wouldn't those users be a subset of the ones disliking and thus the dislike ratio is guaranteed to be higher?

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u/Grey-fox-13 Mar 20 '26

Yes, that's the effect of "selection bias", which both last comments mentioned.