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It's not real though, you do know that right? There isn't some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.
I imagine it's taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.
Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.
Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that's OK, as it's open source and you can see how it's calculated on their github.
It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.
It also archived a lot of video's dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.
As a user of the extension who knows how it works (no thanks to yourself), take it with whatever sized grain of salt you feel comfortable with.
It's "real" as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it's just an estimate.
It is real, it's just not data from YouTube. The information on how it works is made very clear, and people using it should be aware of the drawbacks.