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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#392This kills YT for me. I use ratings-preview extension to tell me if the video is worth watching. I can't imagine using YT without it.
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#393Related: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177460, but we merged that thread hither)
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#394The dislike button on YouTube videos is one of the few remaining signals that what you are seeing is propaganda. It hadn't occurred to me that this would happen (although it seems obvious) and it is unexpectedly frightening to me. I suppose the fallback will be videos with comments enabled, where people can 'like' a comment who is saying something common sense and reasonable in response to the content.
In my experience, if a video has comments disabled, it's probably bad. The lack of signal is itself a signal.
Usually that is a signal but not always.
Official Rammstein videos have comments disabled but for a different reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc would attract ugly comments from all extremes
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#395This is another example of how the ruling class is trying to reassert control over the narrative and flow of information. Flag dissent as `misinformation`, remove comments, remove dislikes. Bit by bit, clamping down on the ability for the public to revolt.
I'll say this again, I want Google to go down along with the rest of FAANG. It has way too much control over US population and the rest of the world. It has started to abuse its position.
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#396On google maps the most informative reviews are the negative ones... even if the ratio is highly biased to 5-star ratings, the few negative ratings usually leak the more honest opinions which help you qualify the positive reviews.
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#398I’m sure the White House videos getting disliked into oblivion influenced this.
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#399Awesome -- more positivity at gunpoint
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#400Somebody should make an extension that brings back dislikes and comments on videos where they're disabled. Just store it all on a different server but seamlessly integrate it into YouTube.