Following up from previous post: https://greatawakening.win/p/11SJtD3YP2/youtube-dislike-deletions-tracke/
Many noticed 10K Dislikes were deleted from the official White House 46th Inauguration video, sometime on the first day of posting. This chart tracked Likes, Dislikes and Views every ten minutes since then. It shows how often and when these deletions happen, and estimates how many Dislikes the video would have had.
Inauguration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iCPKDp4V4 Data used (CSV): https://pastebin.com/ZM404zp4 Script (nodejs): https://hackerpaste.hns.siasky.net/#AACHM9htwj7VWJXcakR0ilowQSJyjkZLnRz-6NAxYfOigQe1UcbSzSBlWGyIm4aZTf
Script notes:
The script works by checking an Invidious instance every ten minutes and continually outputting the data as a line of CSV.
Invidious is an alternate front-end to YouTube that is typically run by ordinary people as a free public service. There are many "instances" (copies) of Invidious with different names/URL's, that are all basically the same thing. It's simply a different way of accessing YT content.
The advantage is that Invidious does not use the YT API, so it can't be banned as it's just accessing the site the way ordinary users do. It also means nobody needs to sign up with a YT account to do tracking such as this, and that YT doesn't have any concept of what's happening.
The script uses nodejs so be sure to have that installed (nodejs.org - choose the "recommended for most users" version). There is no error checking on output so may need to manually clean output file of errors incase of disconnects etc. Also be warned if the user doesn't change the output file name on a second run, running the script again will delete the previous output file.
Be great to have pedes tracking different videos. Probably reasonable for a single pede to track 10 vids by staggering script executions by one minute each time. Wouldn't be wise to run more often than that or the Invidious instance may get upset with the amount of traffic. Recommend choosing different Invidious instances from the default too, to spread around usage. (There is a link to a list of instances in the script.)
Yeah it's strange. YT seems to take some views off and then restore that same amount again later, but only sometimes. What's on the chart is just what came down the line.
Appreciate this, but found TDW too non-serious. Feel free to repost there. Great Awakening is surely Q-focused, and maybe part of that can be posts helping to open eyes and minds to ongoing deception? Feel this post fits in that way, and might well agree with you on others that don't - a lot of noise at the moment. Go well, fren!
It's weird for sure. Other reply touches on potential reasons, but as they say it still doesn't look right. Def be good to see against different videos.
Have updated main comment with link to script and instructions. Thanks, great idea!
After yesterdays 10K Dislike deletion by YouTube on the inauguration video, started tracking the numbers every ten minutes. This is 33 hours from the start of tracking. Inauguration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5iCPKDp4V4 Data used (CSV): https://hackerpaste.hns.siasky.net/#EAAk7BxJOcLHUUGKSZiSozk30pdOkEyeul7rKoupoGvDCgTVLOOXJL3tN2xJAXfwlS
--EDIT: Thanks all for the great response!
Tidied the script for people to use if they'd like to track videos themselves. The script works by checking an Invidious instance every ten minutes and outputting the data.
Invidious is an alternate front-end to YouTube that does not use the YT API. This means it can't be banned as it's just accessing the site the way ordinary users do. It also means nobody needs to sign up with a YT account to do the tracking, and it also means YT doesn't have any concept of what's happening. Included here is the exact script used to generate the data used in above chart, just tidied up a bit.
The script uses nodejs so be sure to have that installed (nodejs.org - choose the "recommended for most users" version). There is no error checking on output so may need to manually clean output file of errors incase of disconnects etc. Also be warned if the user doesn't change the output file name on a second run, running the script again will delete the previous output file.
Be great to have pedes tracking different videos. Probably reasonable for a single pede to track 10 vids by staggering script executions by one minute each time. Wouldn't be wise to run more often than that or the Invidious instance may get upset with the amount of traffic (these are run by ordinary people not companies, typically). Recommend choosing different Invidious instances from the default too, to spread around usage.
Here's the script (nodejs): https://hackerpaste.hns.siasky.net/#AACHM9htwj7VWJXcakR0ilowQSJyjkZLnRz-6NAxYfOigQe1UcbSzSBlWGyIm4aZTf
Will log in time to time to help if poss.
Thank you! Much appreciated.