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by LocalH 230 days ago
IIRC, in the earliest days, the extension reported the dislike count that was still in the API but not surfaced in any clients. At some point after that, Google removed the count from the API entirely, requiring the current piecemeal approach.
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That was true for about 3 weeks (ie. less than 2% of the extension's history)